Disney Suing Family For Trademark Infringement

  • Posted by Joel
  • July 9, 2008

WFTV is reporting that a Lake County, Florida, family owned clown company is being sued by the Walt Disney Company for $1,000,000 due to trademark infringement for their use of Tigger, Eyeore, and Pooh at their clown parties. The company, ‘Kool Klown Party People‘, purchased costumes of Tigger, Eyeore and Pooh from an eBay user in Peru and advertised them on their website, MySpace page and CraigsList for parties. When Disney found their website, they sent three notices to the company to send the costumes to Disney so they can be destroyed. The company instead returned them to the eBay user in Peru which caused Disney lawyers to say they were acting in bad faith.

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