{"id":796,"date":"2008-05-08T07:39:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-08T15:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=796"},"modified":"2008-05-08T07:39:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-08T15:39:00","slug":"x-rated-espn-sues-quiksilver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=796","title":{"rendered":"X Rated: ESPN Sues Quiksilver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.leecrane.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/quikx2.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"238\" alt=\"quikx2.jpg\" style=\"float:right;\" \/>In a shockingly silly legal maneuver <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN<\/a><\/strong> has apparently sued <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.quiksilver.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Quiksilver<\/a><\/strong> in federal court over an &#8220;X&#8221; the clothing company has used that looks similar to the <strong>ESPN X Games<\/strong> logo.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Quiksilver uses a stylized &#8220;X&#8221; emblem on clothing, labels and accessories that is &#8220;confusingly similar&#8221; to ESPN&#8217;s logo for the series of surfing and biking contests, according to the lawsuit filed this month in federal court in New York.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;Despite protests by ESPN, Quiksilver has since willfully expanded the use of the infringing mark, and Quiksilver&#8217;s apparel and accessories are now replete with the infringing mark,&#8221; the suit alleges.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Seems like there would be an easier way to get Quik to advertise, doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-quik8-2008may08,0,2372920.story\" target=\"_blank\">LA Times<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a shockingly silly legal maneuver ESPN has apparently sued Quiksilver in federal court over an &#8220;X&#8221; the clothing company has used that looks similar to the ESPN X Games logo. Quiksilver uses a stylized &#8220;X&#8221; emblem on clothing, labels and accessories that is &#8220;confusingly similar&#8221; to ESPN&#8217;s logo for the series of surfing and [&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":[10,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796"}],"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=796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}