Sunday 25 September 2022 07:38 PM KY restaurant created by KFC founder Harland Sanders for his wife in 1959 is ... trends now

The brand owners of KFC are stalling the purchase of the Kentucky restaurant and estate created for Harland Sanders for his wife in 1959 over trademark concerns. 

Claudia's Dinner House - located in Shelbyville - was owned by the Sanders and their friends Tommy and Cherry Settle, and now the Settles are committed to finding a new 'caretaker of this historic brand.' 

The Settles are reportedly seeking $9million for the estate, which includes the dinner house, the mansion known as Blackwood Hall, the three acres of land, and the intellectual property, including a KFC flag and a birthday letter to Sanders from President Richard Nixon. 

Despite there being a few offers, from franchising it for the first time to making it into an Airbnb, the KFC brand owner Yum! Brands' legal team has stalled the transaction by submitting a filing to the US Patent & Trademark Office just days after the estate hit the market in June. 

The filing seeks to reinforce the KFC trademark protections, including 'Colonel Sanders' Original Recipe,' 'Col. Harland Sanders' and 'It's Finger Lickin' Good,' according to the New York Post. 

'It’s a very unique situation,' Realtor Jonathan Klunk of Six Degrees Real Estate told the Post. 'We are selling Claudia and she doesn’t have as much name recognition as her husband, but a buyer can’t describe her without mentioning both her husband and KFC.' 

Klunk said there's 'a lot of similarities' between KFC's menu and Claudia's Dinner House, but the dinner house's offerings have 'no connection to the KFC recipe.' 

The Settles did, however, have a run-in with Yum! Brands in 2001, according to the Post, when Tommy found a  datebook from 1964 that contained a list of 11 herbs and spices in Blackwood Hall. He wanted to have it authenticated to sell it, but Yum! sued. 

The case was later dropped after the brand owners said the recipe was

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