{"id":117553,"date":"2024-04-19T21:02:24","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T21:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/04\/19\/pink-files-suit-against-pharrell-williams-over-plans-to-trademark-p-inc\/"},"modified":"2024-04-19T21:02:24","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T21:02:24","slug":"pink-files-suit-against-pharrell-williams-over-plans-to-trademark-p-inc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/04\/19\/pink-files-suit-against-pharrell-williams-over-plans-to-trademark-p-inc\/","title":{"rendered":"Pink files suit against Pharrell Williams over plans to trademark &#8220;P.Inc&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-04-19\/Getty_pinkhandsup_041924.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Alexander Tamargo\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Pink<\/strong> and <strong>Pharrell Williams<\/strong> are at legal odds over the use of a name.<\/p>\n<p>According to legal documents obtained by ABC News, Pink&#8217;s lawyers have filed suit against the &#8220;Happy&#8221; artist because he&#8217;s attempting to trademark &#8220;P.Inc.&#8221;\u00a0Pink&#8217;s camp argues that would &#8220;likely<span> cause confusion, mistake and\/or deception\u201d among consumers who see it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Pharrell&#8217;s request shows that he intends to use the trademark for a wide range of music-related ventures. Pink&#8217;s suit argues that her trademark has priority because she&#8217;s owned it longer; that Pharrell&#8217;s term is &#8220;similar&#8221; to her trademark in &#8220;<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\">sight, sound, meaning and<\/span><span> <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\">commercial impression&#8221;; and that her and Pharrell&#8217;s &#8220;goods and services are identical and\/or closely related.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The suit contends Pink &#8220;<span dir=\"ltr\">will be damaged&#8221; if Pharrell is allowed to trademark his term.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span dir=\"ltr\">Billboard<\/span><\/em><span dir=\"ltr\"> <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/pro\/pharrell-williams-pink-legal-dispute-p-inc-trademark\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span dir=\"ltr\">reported<\/span><\/a><span dir=\"ltr\"> that Pharrell has also been sued by Victoria Secret&#8217;s PINK brand for the same reason.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"ltr\">At press time, Pharrell&#8217;s reps had not responded to ABC Audio&#8217;s request for comment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Tamargo\/Getty Images Pink and Pharrell Williams are at legal odds over the use of a name. According to legal documents obtained by ABC News, Pink&#8217;s lawyers have filed suit against the &#8220;Happy&#8221; artist because he&#8217;s attempting to trademark &#8220;P.Inc.&#8221;\u00a0Pink&#8217;s camp argues that would &#8220;likely cause confusion, mistake and\/or deception\u201d<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/04\/19\/pink-files-suit-against-pharrell-williams-over-plans-to-trademark-p-inc\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,426,427],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117553"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}