{"id":2563,"date":"2008-11-19T07:52:28","date_gmt":"2008-11-19T15:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=2563"},"modified":"2008-11-19T07:55:13","modified_gmt":"2008-11-19T15:55:13","slug":"x-marks-the-dispute-quik-vs-espn-round-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=2563","title":{"rendered":"X Marks The Dispute: Quik vs. ESPN Round 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/quikx2.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/quikx2.jpg','popup','width=200,height=238,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/quikx2-tm.jpg\" height=\"238\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Quikx2\" \/><\/a>In May, 2008 <strong>Walt Disney&#8217;s ESPN sued Quiksilver <\/strong>for copyright infringement on the use of the letter &#8220;X&#8221; in Quik&#8217;s Generation X line of clothing.<\/p>\n<p>Then a month later Quiksilver sued ESPN saying they had been using the X since 1994 (two years before ESPN began using the letter for its X Games). <\/p>\n<p>Now a federal judge in New York has ruled that ESPN must face allegations.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The emblem for ESPN&#8217;s extreme-sports franchise is &#8220;strikingly similar&#8221; to the stylized X used by Quiksilver in the Gen X line of clothing, U.S. District Judge <strong>Colleen McMahon<\/strong> said in a Friday ruling in New York. . . &#8220;Quiksilver thoroughly laid out its long history of many types of X usage,&#8221; McMahon said, rejecting ESPN&#8217;s bid to dismiss the claims. &#8220;Quiksilver has also adequately pled that ESPN&#8217;s use of the X mark is likely to cause consumer confusion.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We kind of hope Quiksilver makes the mouse pay through the nose. They could use some cash right now.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-x19-2008nov19,0,3023639.story\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In May, 2008 Walt Disney&#8217;s ESPN sued Quiksilver for copyright infringement on the use of the letter &#8220;X&#8221; in Quik&#8217;s Generation X line of clothing. Then a month later Quiksilver sued ESPN saying they had been using the X since 1994 (two years before ESPN began using the letter for its X Games). Now a [&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\/2563"}],"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=2563"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2566,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563\/revisions\/2566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}