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September 4, 2024
Jool Lebron's story offers lessons on the battle social media content creators face to get credit and monetize the trends…
Lizzo Performs At The Kia Forum
February 3, 2023
Lizzo just scored a major win! The Grammy winning singer-songwriter was granted the trademark for her lyric, "100% that B**ch…
July 27, 2022
An "athletic empowerment brand" James co-founded recently filed to trademark the notable diss a Fox News figure spewed at him.
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July 30, 2021
Weeks after Kim Kardashian filed to trademark her new beauty brands SKKN and SKKN by KIM, her legal team received…
LeBron James theGrio.com
September 11, 2019
NBA superstar LeBron “King” James has begun the process of trademarking the catch phrase "Taco Tuesday," due to the popularity of…
May 23, 2019
ANALYSIS: To the surprise of some, the revered cosmetics brand is not Black-owned, as it turns out, but now a…
Cardi B thegrio.com
March 22, 2019
Cardi B has officially filed a trademark application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, via her company Washpoppin,…
Jay-Z Reform Alliance thegrio.com
February 1, 2019
Jay-Z won his legal battle to diversify a “too white” arbitration panel, which will now have six Black candidates to…
Alfonso Ribeiro thegrio.com
December 20, 2018
Legal and influencer marketing experts share how to fight culture vultures who are stealing Black folk's like Alfonso Ribeiro intellectual…
Vogue
October 9, 2018
The 26-year-old founder of the Black Vogue brand, who was featured in 'Teen Vogue' is now being sued by the…
December 19, 2014
Eric Garner’s last words have become the slogan of a new movement. “I can’t breathe” is now everywhere. It’s a
June 18, 2014
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Patent Office ruled Wednesday that the Washington Redskins nickname is "disparaging of Native Americans" and…
December 7, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Ludacris is often associated with his album and record label name Disturbing Tha Peace. The rapper is…
March 26, 2012
SANFORD, Fla. (AP) - The mother of slain Florida teenager Trayvon Martin has filed papers seeking to trademark two slogans…
February 9, 2012
The Carters applied on January 26th to trademark their daughters name. They did this with the intention of creating a…
February 17, 2011
O.B. Nizam, an Altanta based hair care business owner, is in a trademark battle over the name of his product…