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PornHub owner MindGeek is threatening a kebab shop in NYC with trademark infringement
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this post was submitted on 16 Aug 2023
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It's not quiet so cut and dry. The law is written to cover 90% but this isn't a criminal matter, it's a civil one, and civil suits are always decided in courtrooms. If I created a weed dispensary and called it Instant Pot and stylized my logo like that of a popular countertop pressure cooker they'd be well within their rights to sue despite being wildly different industries.
Where does parody fit in? There are a lot of examples of restaurants like this and all seem to be based on a play on words/tongue in cheek parody of pornhub due to the names of their businesses, however they are not using the name pornhub at all just the style of text inside the orange and black pill
I'm not a trademark lawyer but I'm not sure parody would fly there.