{"id":681348,"date":"2010-03-03T08:04:51","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T13:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100302\/1241398366.shtml"},"modified":"2010-03-03T08:04:51","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T13:04:51","slug":"louis-vuitton-sues-hyundai-over-a-louis-vuitton-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/681348","title":{"rendered":"Louis Vuitton Sues Hyundai Over A Louis Vuitton Basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, I saw that Marty Schwimmer had posted a link to a Hyundai commercial asking if anyone saw the “lawsuit” in the commercial<\/a>:
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\nIt took me a second viewing before I spotted it. The commercial itself plays on the idea of “what if everyone could experience luxury items” showing various examples of “luxury” items being used in more everyday settings: yachts in driveways, cops eating caviar and… some guys shooting hoops with a “luxury” basketball using the typical Louis Vuitton markings that you see on LV purses\/handbags\/etc.<\/p>\n

Louis Vuitton is notoriously (and ridiculously) aggressive when it comes to trademark infringement. A couple years back we wrote about LVMH (parent company of Louis Vuitton) suing a Darfur fundraiser<\/a> for creating a t-shirt of a Darfur victim “pimped out” to look like Paris Hilton, including a designer handbag with symbols made to look like the LV symbols.<\/p>\n

So, yes, that’s exactly what this lawsuit is about. DSchneider<\/a> points us to the Consumerist’s article laying out the details<\/a> and I’ve embedded the lawsuit filing below:
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\nFrankly, this lawsuit is ridiculous. LVMH is claiming that people might be confused<\/i>? In what world? Seriously. In what world is anyone going to view the Hyundai commercial and think that it implies any kind of LVMH endorsement of Hyundai. It’s a joke — and any moron in a hurry knows that the LV basketball isn’t a sign that LVMH is working with or endorsing Hyundai.<\/p>\n

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