Is Lollishops infringing on Trademark?

I came across a Lollishop seller support group and found some interesting reading..

Don't think the name "Lollishop" is original...There is a Lollie Shop based in Australia that was operating long before Lollishop.com.

Now I've contacted the owner of Lollie Shop regarding trademark misuse and I'm anxiously awaiting his response.

I'm not sure if lollishops registered a trademark because I went on http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=searchss&state=qpldpl.1.1 and found nothing about it.

If anyone has info on the lollishop trademark please feel free to comment.

The original Lollie Shop can be found here: http://www.thebiggestlollieshopintheworld.com.au/

I've also found some more Lolly sites:

http://www.lollyshop.co.nz/
http://www.lollieshop.com/

Is Lollishops Dive Bombing?

After tons of complaints and hardly any sales from Lollishops, vendors are starting to close up shop.

Many of the vendors are complaining of high fees and unprofessional behavior shown by the owner.

A lot of vendors are also complaining about the favoritism shown by the owner of other vendors.

Lollishop vendors are very worried about the lack of experience the owner has. Some say she got way in over her head. From the way the site looks, people are saying stolen pics from polyvore is being used to make banners and avatars to numerous complaints on the lack of security the site has.

It seems that several Lollishop vendors were banned from the site after participating in the etsy forums. I find it quite amusing that the owner gets so upset when people talk about Lollishops in the etsy forums when she in fact USED the etsy forums to recruit the vendors! I guess no one is allowed to express an opinion until I opened this blog. So if any pissed off Lollishop vendors want to express an opinion, go right ahead! I'll make your comments public! Vendors should be able to voice an opinion about another venue. It helps in making a decision in whether or not to sell there.

There were a few discussions on the etsy message boards regarding the issues and the threads were closed. But ah yes!!! I found them! Kind of ironic how the owner completely shut down her private and public Ning sites after all this evolved. Here are the closed threads.:

http://www.etsy.com/forums_thread.php?thread_id=6012715&page=1

http://www.etsy.com/forums_thread.php?thread_id=6008130&page=1

http://www.etsy.com/forums_thread.php?thread_id=5933236&page=1

Happy Lollishopping!