Overview
- 1587 Sneakers filed an opposition to the defendants' motion to dismiss, accusing Travis Kelce and Patrick Mahomes of recasting themselves as "mere promotional 'pretty faces'" to avoid responsibility for the restaurant mark.
- Kelce and Mahomes asked the court to dismiss claims against them on the ground that they have no direct ownership interest in and lack control over the LLC that opened 1587 Prime in Kansas City.
- The sneaker company cites the restaurant’s own website and the stars’ late-2025 press tour that billed 1587 as a collaboration with Mahomes and Kelce to argue the athletes actively promoted and shaped the brand.
- 1587 Sneakers seeks an injunction to stop the steakhouse’s use of the 1587 name and sales of branded merchandise and is pressing priority based on its claimed use of the mark since April 2023, while the athletes’ team filed a restaurant trademark in December 2023.
- The federal case in New York remains unresolved and is moving toward further discovery and briefing, a process that will test whether celebrity promotion can create personal liability and whether the two uses of “1587” are likely to cause consumer confusion.