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*Now everyone and their mama will know when and where Beyonce will be deposed in the trademark lawsuit filed against her. According to WENN, the singer lost a bid to keep details about the upcoming deposition under wraps.
Earlier this year, Bey filed legal papers with the Patent and Trademark Office for the moniker “Blue Ivy Carter,” the name of her five-year-old daughter with JAY-Z. She attempted to reserve rights to use the name in beauty, fashion, and electronics ventures or to prevent others from cashing in on her daughter’s identity.
However, Beyonce’s application didn’t sit well with Veronica Morales, who said the trademark was too similar to the name of her event planning firm, Blue Ivy Company, and took legal action.
Morales served the singer with a notice to sit for a deposition in the case, and shortly after, in September, Beyonce’s lawyers filed court documents requesting a protective order which would ban details about the time and location of the session and what she says about her family during the round of questioning being made public – as she was concerned for her family’s safety.
Bey’s motion for the protective order was denied by members of the Trademark Trial and Appeal board, who ruled earlier this week that they didn’t find the arguments about Beyonce’s fears for her family’s safety persuasive.
When Beyonce’s lawyers filed the request, they said the order would help minimize the “intrusive use for security” for Beyonce and the venue and “reduce the dangerous pandemonium that so often marks Mrs. Carter’s public appearances.”
Morales claims she started her company three years before the child was born and had already secured a trademark. It’s the second time the party planners have objected to Beyonce’s trademark attempts – the singer previously lost her bid to secure the rights to “Blue Ivy” for commercial use shortly after her daughter’s birth in 2012.
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