LA Triumph insists it has exclusivity to the tag. They have been using the phrase since , according to court documents, and registered the Material Girl trademark.
LA Triumph may have been selling Material Girl clothing since , but as Madonna's lawyers point out, she has been singing Material Girl since Madonna Louise Ciccone is the Material Girl, they claim, and she has been selling related merchandise for about 25 years.
Although they will be permitted to make this argument to the jury, judge Otero insisted that concert paraphernalia is not the same as retail clothing sales. This article is more than 10 years old. Singer's claim over Material Girl trademark rejected by judge, allowing lawsuit from rival clothing company to go to trial.
Trademark tussle By Bianca Layog on July 28, As the last of my classmates trickled out of campus that month, I slouched in my boarding school dorm room manufacturing another playlist. Cardboard boxes and various pairs of stolen scissors lay strewn all over my room. A stuffed koala — one that my friend, Eli, had given to me for safekeeping — sat in front of me, limbs leaking out of a half-open, newly-emptied drawer. Every song becomes a part of my body. No greeting or farewell feels complete without a soundtrack to go along with it.
The first song I added to my March playlist was Yesterday by the Beatles. I organized the songs to tell a story; I started with the going away and then the staying-at-home before the coming back, as if I could already imagine the future. It was how I coped; the music muffled the sense of solitude in that apartment. I renamed my playlists several times, reorganized songs and told myself that it was absolutely normal to have every song sound as pathetic as my isolation.
Then, I tried to be happy.
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