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DIDDY AVOIDS COPYRIGHT ISSUE OVER COLOGNE: Unforgivable scent could have faced legal battle from Unforgiven perfume.
*Sean “Diddy” Combs was nearly headed to a court room over copyright issues involving his new fragrance Unforgivable.
Sohh.com had reported that the United States Patent & Trademark Office denied Diddy’s use of the Unforgivable trademark because the name was too similar to Unforgiven, a women's fragrance launched by French perfumer Jacques Evard.
However, a spokesperson for Unforgivable told the Web site that the trademark issue was never in question, as reps for both fragrances made a deal to peacefully co-exist.
"Christian Casey LLC owns rights to the trademark Unforgivable for use with the Sean John fragrance," an Unforgivable spokesperson told SOHH.com exclusively. "Christian Casey negotiated a co-existence agreement with Paris Bleu whereby Paris Bleu has assigned its rights to the trademark Unforgivable to Christian Casey and the parties have agreed to co-exist in the market using their respective marks, Unforgivable and Unforgiven."
The original document sent to Diddy denying the Unforgivable trademark stated: "The examining attorney refuses registration under Trademark Act Section 2, because the [Unforgivable] applicant's mark, when used on or in connection with the identified goods, so resembles the mark in [Unforgiven] U.S. Registration No. 2,951,186 as to be likely to cause confusion, to cause mistake, or to deceive."
According to the documents, the application for Unforgiven was filed on June 1, 2005, a little over a month before Diddy’s application arrived on July 11, 2005.
As previously reported, Diddy is hoping to generate a different kind of scent from the kitchen of his new NBC reality series “Cooking With Celebrities,” to air five consecutive nights beginning April 17th.
The first three episodes will feature three famous chefs (Wolfgang Puck, Cat Cora and Govind Armstrong) training a celebrity to prepare a three-course meal for a timed competition. Judges will choose one celebrity winner from each night, with the three finalists squaring off for a Thursday finale. The winner, determined by a panel of judges and viewer votes, will be announced on Friday.
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