The German sportswear firm has filed over 90 lawsuits related to its three-stripe trademark since 2008. Read more at straitstimes.com.
WASHINGTON - Sportswear maker Adidas on Wednesday reversed course and said it was withdrawing a request to the United States Trademark Office to reject a Black Lives Matter application for a trademark featuring three parallel stripes.
Adidas told the trademark office in a Monday filing that the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation’s yellow-stripe design would create confusion with its own famous three-stripe mark. Adidas said in the filing that it has been using its logo since as early as 1952, and that it has acquired “international fame and tremendous public recognition”.
A jury in that case decided in January that Thom Browne’s stripe patterns did not violate Adidas’ trademark rights.
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