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Tornadoes ravaged portions of central Oklahoma on Sunday, reducing portions of a mobile home park to rubble and killing a 79-year-old man whose body was found out in the open.more>> Tornadoes ravaged portions of central Oklahoma on Sunday, reducing portions of a mobile home park to rubble and killing a 79-year-old man whose body was found out in the open.more>> Hundreds gathered for a second line honoring the victim's of last Sunday's Mother's Day shooting. Participants say last weekend's violence won't keep them from doing what they love. more>> Hundreds gathered for a second line honoring the victim's of last Sunday's Mother's Day shooting. Participants say last weekend's violence won't keep them from doing what they love. more>> In just a matter of weeks uptown residents who live near the Arabella Fire Station will lose a special piece of firefighting equipment.more>> In just a matter of weeks uptown residents who live near the Arabella Fire Station will lose a special piece of firefighting equipment.more>> One of several tornadoes that touched down Sunday in Oklahoma turned homes in a trailer park near Oklahoma City into splinters and rubble and sent frightened residents along a 100-mile corridor scurrying for shelter.more>> One of several tornadoes that touched down Sunday in Oklahoma turned homes in a trailer park near Oklahoma City into splinters and rubble and sent frightened residents along a 100-mile corridor scurrying for shelter.more>> Amtrak officials say a train departing from New Orleans derailed not far from Chicago's Union Station.more>> Amtrak officials say a train departing from New Orleans derailed not far from Chicago's Union Station.more>> A government report says construction of a new Veterans Affairs hospital in New Orleans is $370 million over budget and 14 months behind schedule.more>> A government report says construction of a new Veterans Affairs hospital in New Orleans is $370 million over budget and 14 months behind schedule.more>> The State Fire Marshal's Office is asking for assistance in the investigation of a series of fires in St. Charles Parish.more>> The State Fire Marshal's Office is asking for assistance in the investigation of a series of fires in St. Charles Parish.more>> Authorities say a 12-year-old boy accidentally shot his 8-year-old brother with a gun he found in a closet at his grandparents' Baton Rouge home.more>> Authorities say a 12-year-old boy accidentally shot his 8-year-old brother with a gun he found in a closet at his grandparents' Baton Rouge home.more>> The Tangipahoa Parish School Board will use rededicated sales tax revenue, cuts to transportation services, elimination of a perfect-attendance salary bonus and a one-time reduction in the board-mandated minimum fund balance.more>> The Tangipahoa Parish School Board will use rededicated sales tax revenue, cuts to transportation services, elimination of a perfect-attendance salary bonus and a one-time reduction in the board-mandated minimum fund balance.more>> Police are investigating a fatal accident Sunday morning that left an unidentified man dead.more>> Police are investigating a fatal accident Sunday morning that left an unidentified man dead.more>>
The School of Design, operating as the Rex Organization, filed suit yesterday in United States Federal Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana against a California-based liquor distributor, "King REX Spirits, Inc.," and its president, Sal Ortiz, for infringement of the Rex Organization's trademarks through the company's marketing and promotional activities and sales of its new "King Rex" alcohol products.
The lawsuit seeks damages and injunctive relief against the company for its unauthorized and misleading representation, identification, affiliation, connection and association of its "King REX Spirits" products and advertising with the Rex Organization's iconic trademarks, trade names and brand images and symbols, which have distinguished the New Orleans Mardi Gras organization since it began parading as the acknowledged "King of Carnival" in 1872.
The lawsuit claims specifically that Rex Spirits, Inc., produces and markets vodka, rum and bourbon products under the name "King REX," the packaging, marketing and promotion of which is replete with symbols and descriptions of the customs, traditions, trademarks, images and historical references of the Rex Organization. Such infringements unlawfully assume the Rex Organization's identity in order to sell the company's products and confuse the public, the lawsuit claims.
The lawsuit cites numerous examples of trademark infringement in which King REX Spirits willfully associates itself with the Rex Organization, including promotional language in which it actively affiliates itself with REX by calling itself the "Monarch of Merriment" and "King of Carnival," two of the Rex Organization's most well-established and publically recognized monikers.
