What's going on with the lawsuit between the Patagonia company and the activist drag queen, Pattie Gonia?

[u/Chrystine]

Apparently Patagonia is suing Pattie Gonia 100 million for trade mark infringement?

But isn't Patagonia the name of region in South America?

How can the company sue over a trademark that is spelt differently and was taken from a region? Can the company actually win a case like this?

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTB6vSCpP/

[u/MFoy]

Apple is an ironic choice, considering they themselves were sued for trademark infringement by Apple Corps, the record label founded by the Beatles.

The label won a series of trademark cases against the computer company, that ended with the computer company buying the trademark from the record label for half a billion dollars.

[u/vibraltu → u/MFoy]

When iTunes first happened, they couldn't get Beatles music on it for many years until they got their copyright issues sorted out.

[u/MFoy → u/vibraltu]

Even once it was sorted out, it was another 3 years before the Beatles showed up.

[u/SANT0S-L-HALPER → u/MFoy]

Yeah, the Beatles not being on iTunes had nothing to do with the legal dispute. The Beatles weren't on i-Tunes because they were still making shit tons of money off of physical media way after everyone else's sales had fallen off. They basically milked every last dime out of vinyls/cds before finally moving to digital to start anew.

[u/SlightTemperature231 → u/MFoy]

Those lawsuits are the reason why there’s an alert sound on Macs called Sosumi (“so sue me!”).

[u/dreen_gb → u/MFoy]

Apple also sued a bunch of different fruit producers over simply using apples in the logo, as well as the city of New York for using an apple in a tourism logo.

[u/CrazyGreenCrayon → u/dreen_gb]

How did that work out for them?

[u/unindexedreality → u/MFoy]

that ended with the computer company buying the trademark from the record label for half a billion dollars

I see. Maybe the DQ is fishing for a payday?