A legal dispute between the men who own the corporation behind the D.C. Cobbs restaurant in McHenry is raising questions over which can use the brand’s logo, name, menus and recipes as a licensing deal between them expired Saturday, court documents show.
Since the deal lapsed, Josh Carstens and former Woodstock City Council member Dan Hart – equal shareholders of the Illinois-based corporation McHenry Cobbs that owns the establishment – are in a new phase of a disagreement that started when a lawsuit between them was filed by Carstens last year.
Now, Hart is probing whether it is legal for the restaurant to continue operations with its present name D.