Legal spat threatens to snuff cigar brand

(Tennessean) A Nashville startup that sells artisan cigars has stumbled into a legal dispute with a 145-year-old farmers association over a product named after a piece of Led Zeppelin lore.
Crowned Heads, a company less than 2 years old, introduced the “Headley Grange” cigar line recently, finding inspiration in the name of a 19th-century poorhouse in East Hampshire, England, in which rock group Led Zeppelin reportedly wrote and recorded many of its hit songs.
On a product description, the company said the cigars were blended to evoke the heavy drums heard during the opening of Led Zeppelin’s “When the Levee Breaks,” which was recorded at Headley Grange.
The company filed for a trademark on the name, but days before the patent’s comment period ended, a farmers group by the tongue-twisting name of the National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry objected. Continued