{"id":22042,"date":"2011-03-09T10:07:53","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T18:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=22042"},"modified":"2014-09-08T09:40:45","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T16:40:45","slug":"abercrombie-fitch-suing-over-gull-logo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=22042","title":{"rendered":"Abercrombie &#038; Fitch Flips The Bird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DAI-ANF-hollister-gull-dispute.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DAI-ANF-hollister-gull-dispute-tm.jpg\" alt=\"Dai-Anf-Hollister-Gull-Dispute\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" align=\"right\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" \/><\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abercrombie.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Abercrombie &amp; Fitch<\/a><\/strong><strong>,<\/strong> whose entirely derivative faux-surf brand <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollisterco.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hollister Co<\/a><\/strong><strong>.<\/strong> has built a business out of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandrepublic.com\/News\/895625\/Surfwear-brand-Gul-dispute-Hollister-logo\/\" target=\"_blank\">appropriating<\/a><\/strong> <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacklunch.com\/oldsacks\/041206.php\" target=\"_blank\">surf iconography<\/a><\/strong>, is reportedly suing Florida-based retailer <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.surf-style.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Surf Style<\/a><\/strong> because the company uses the image of a flying gull on several of its products, according to a story in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/assets.bizjournals.com\/columbus\/news\/2011\/03\/07\/abercrombie-fitch-sues-florida.html\" target=\"_blank\">Columbus Business First<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Abercrombie (NYSE:ANF), which declined to comment on the lawsuit, is seeking monetary relief and undisclosed damages and asking that Surf Style be barred from using the gull. . . This isn\u2019t the first run-in between the two businesses over the gull design. Abercrombie said in the lawsuit it sent a cease-and-desist letter to Surf Style last May and that the chain agreed to quit selling the allegedly offending merchandise by September \u2013 but didn\u2019t.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From now on designers will have to think twice before they <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0XM3vWJmpfo\" target=\"_blank\">put a bird on it<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/assets.bizjournals.com\/columbus\/news\/2011\/03\/07\/abercrombie-fitch-sues-florida.html\" target=\"_blank\">Columbus Business First<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abercrombie &amp; Fitch, whose entirely derivative faux-surf brand Hollister Co. has built a business out of appropriating surf iconography, is reportedly suing Florida-based retailer Surf Style because the company uses the image of a flying gull on several of its products, according to a story in Columbus Business First. Abercrombie (NYSE:ANF), which declined to comment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22042"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22042"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46699,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22042\/revisions\/46699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}