{"id":75199,"date":"2026-03-06T08:31:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T08:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=75199"},"modified":"2026-03-06T08:31:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T08:31:32","slug":"pudgy-penguins-sued-by-original-penguin-brand-owner-over-trademark-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=75199","title":{"rendered":"Pudgy Penguins Sued By Original Penguin Brand Owner Over Trademark Use"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The owner of the <strong>Original Penguin<\/strong>\u00a0apparel brand filed a lawsuit Wednesday against\u00a0the <strong>Pudgy Penguins<\/strong> NFT brand\u00a0for alleged\u00a0trademark infringement.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u2018Unauthorised\u2019 Penguin Usage?<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Perry Ellis International<\/strong> argued that Pudgy Penguins continued to produce retail goods even after receiving a cease-and-desist order in October 2023, The Block <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblock.co\/post\/392459\/pudgy-penguins-accused-of-trademark-infringement-by-penguin-apparel-brand\">reported<\/a>, citing a federal court filing. PEI asserted that this has \u201cdiluted\u201d the value of its Penguin brand, which was established in 1955.<\/p>\n<p>The complaint said that Pudgy Penguins\u2019 \u201cunauthorized\u201d use of the Penguin word and design marks could \u201cmislead\u201d consumers into believing that they are connected to PEI.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Pudgy Penguins took a jab at PEI using a popular \u201cThe Office\u201d meme. The NFT brand didn\u2019t return a request for an official comment.<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter ...&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/03\/51089986\/pudgy-penguins-sued-by-original-penguin-brand-owner-over-trademark-use?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel alt=Pudgy Penguins Sued By Original Penguin Brand Owner Over Trademark Use&gt;Full story available on Benzinga.com&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;\/body&gt;&lt;\/html&gt;\"><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The owner of the Original Penguin\u00a0apparel brand filed a lawsuit Wednesday against\u00a0the Pudgy Penguins NFT brand\u00a0for alleged\u00a0trademark infringement. \u2018Unauthorised\u2019 Penguin Usage? Perry Ellis International argued that Pudgy Penguins continued to produce retail goods even after receiving a cease-and-desist order in October 2023, The Block reported, citing a federal court filing. PEI asserted that this has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-75199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}