Chuck Evans MONTEZUMA Brand Sauces & Salsas, formerly Sauces & Salsas, Ltd., maintains the registration of
an incontestable trademark filed November 5, 1993 at the United States Patent & Trademark Office [USPTO] for SMOKEY CHIPOTLE ®; Registration No. 1,874,062 registered January 17, 1995 for product Class 30.
Disposition: Immediately upon receiving Chuck's cease and desist request in 2006, Kraft Foods decided to throw its corporate weight around, conspiring in the
filing of a cancellation proceeding against Chuck's
incontestable trademark, Smokey Chipotle; as well as
filing an objection to registration upon official publication of Chuck's new
trademark registration, Smokin» Chipotle.