Trademark Law
Patterson Belknap: 50 Cent IP Suit Burnishes ‘Gangsta Rapper’ Image
Posted Nov 21, 2008, 10:34 am CST
By Debra Cassens Weiss
Lawyers for Taco Bell have filed an answer to an infringement lawsuit by 50 Cent that claims he is using the litigation “to burnish his gangsta rapper persona.”
The lawyers from Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler are fighting a suit by 50 Cent that claims the restaurant company infringed his trademark in a 99 cent ad campaign, the Am Law Daily reports. The suit cites a Taco Bell letter offering to donate $10,000 to a charity of the rapper’s choice if he would change his name to 79 Cent, 89 Cent or 99 Cent by rapping his order at a drive-through.
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