{"id":429,"date":"2020-03-27T22:59:19","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T02:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/?p=429"},"modified":"2020-03-27T23:06:41","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T03:06:41","slug":"pocket-stitching-trademark-is-a-pain-in-walmarts-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/?p=429","title":{"rendered":"Pocket Stitching Trademark is a Pain in Walmart&#8217;s A**"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On March 24, 2020, American Eagle Outfitters sued Walmart in the Western District of Pennsylvania (<a href=\"ttps:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/American_Eagle_v_Walmarat.pdf\">2:20-cv-00412-DSC<\/a>) complaining that the stitching on the rear pocket of Walmart&#8217;s jeans is confusingly similar to American Eagle&#8217;s \u201cunique, distinctive, and proprietary pocket stitching design.\u201d  American Eagle alleges that  Walmart\u2019s misuse of its mark on a line of lower-priced jeans threatens its reputation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"464\" src=\"https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/American_Eagle_v_Walmart-1024x464.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/American_Eagle_v_Walmart-1024x464.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/American_Eagle_v_Walmart-300x136.jpg 300w, https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/American_Eagle_v_Walmart-768x348.jpg 768w, https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/American_Eagle_v_Walmart-500x227.jpg 500w, https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/American_Eagle_v_Walmart.jpg 1218w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 24, 2020, American Eagle Outfitters sued Walmart in the Western District of Pennsylvania (2:20-cv-00412-DSC) complaining that the stitching on the rear pocket of Walmart&#8217;s jeans is confusingly similar to American Eagle&#8217;s \u201cunique, distinctive, and proprietary pocket stitching design.\u201d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/?p=429\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":434,"href":"https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions\/434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}