Troll Japanese clothing company CUGGL goes viral after winning lawsuit against GUCCI UNSPLASH: JULIEN TONDUA Japanese troll clothing company went viral on social media after winning its trademark lawsuit against GUCCI over similar CUGGL logo. GUCCI lost its lawsuit in a Japanese court, after the Italian fashion house tried to block CUGGL for attempting to trademark a \u201cconfusing\u201d logo, which it claimed was essentially its trademark. The Japan Patent Office dismissed the opposition, concluding that there weren\u2019t enough similarities between both logos for GUCCI to make a solid case. Per Financial Times, the owner of CUGGL is Osaka-based Nobuaki Kurokawa, who sells t-shirts parodying famous brands. He has reimagined the Puma mark into other animal names such as pug, labra(dor) and pome(ranian). These shirts sell on his website at about $12 to $25. Social media users react to CUGGL A Twitter user shared the news that the Japanese troll brand won its lawsuit against the luxurious Italian fashion house. The tweet also showed the logo of CUGGL, which GUCCI argued was essentially its trademark partially covered with a hot-pink brush stroke. Hundreds of users replied to the viral tweet, which has over 25,000 likes, as many sided with Nobuaki Kurokawa, even calling him a \u201cgenius\u201d for trolling the high-end luxury brand. \u201cBIGGEST TROLL [laughing crying emoji]\u201d one user wrote. \u201cThis is genius! More of this please haha\u201d someone else added. \u201cHoly hell this is clever\u201d someone shared. Another user agreed, adding \u201cWhy is this low key hard lol.\u201d Kurokawa applied for the trademark for CUGGL, along with a variation reading \u2018GUANFI\u2019 back in October 2020. Gucci, however, only spotted the registration much later. The Italian fashion house accused its opponent of trademarking the CUGGL symbol with \u201cmalicious intent to free-ride goodwill and reputation\u201d of its brand, as stated by Osaka-based trademark attorney Masaki Mikami. The Japanese Patent Office refuted the comparisons between the GUCCI and CUGGL logos and said it could not identify any resemblances \u201cfrom visual, phonetic, and conceptual points of view.\u201d As there was a \u201clow degree of similarity\u201d between the two, the Board concluded that consumers couldn\u2019t possibly mix the two logos up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Troll Japanese clothing company CUGGL goes viral after winning lawsuit against GUCCI UNSPLASH: JULIEN TONDUA Japanese troll clothing company went viral on social media after winning its trademark lawsuit against GUCCI over similar CUGGL logo. GUCCI lost its lawsuit in a Japanese court, after the Italian fashion house tried to block CUGGL for attempting to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}