IN BRIEF
PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh Planning Commission is delaying for two weeks its vote on the city's planned slot machine casino.
The hearing was supposed to happen Nov. 27, but will now take place Dec. 11. The hearing was delayed to give casino developer Don Barden time to incorporate design changes that were negotiated with the city and county.
Barden has agreed to put a decorative facade on the parking garage and pledged at least 25 percent of the casino will be nonsmoking.
PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh-based Eat 'n Park restaurant chain says a New York company is violating the restaurant's trademark for its Smiley sugar cookies.The restaurant chain says smiley-faced cookies made and sold by The Clever Cookie of Plainview, N.Y. are "confusingly similar" to the Smiley cookies Eat 'n Park has sold since 1985.The Clever Cookie's Web site shows the company sells tins and buckets full of specialty cookies, including those with smiling faces.