Nirvana alleges that Marc Jacobs has used the band’s common law trademarks and infringed the band’s copyright in the smiley face logo in a misleading way in order to make it appear that Marc ...

UPDATE: After this article was published, Marc Jacobs filed a countersuit Nirvana that seeks to invalidate the band’s copyright registration of the X-Eye Smiley Face logo. Among homo sapiens ...

Wal-Mart grabbed the image as it’s corporate logo in 1996 and fought The Smiley company over it and finally settled in 2007, the terms unknown. And the man who first came up with it made $45 ...

Nirvana first brought the suit in Dec. 2018, accusing Marc Jacobs of copyright and trademark infringement over a T-shirt they said ripped off the band’s signature happy face design — with X ...

In 2015, Pennsylvania-based restaurant chain Eat n’ Park, which owns a trademark registration for a smiley face logo in connection with cookies, sued Chicago American Sweet and Snack for using a ...

Yellow peril: You might have noticed that H. Lee Scott Jr. is not smiling in our picture of him (left). Yet the Wal-Mart Stores chief executive would very much like the iconic image of the yellow ...

A Frenchman's trademark claim forces the retailer to go to bat for 'Mr. Smiley,' its version of a '70s icon.

UPDATE: Marc Jacobs has filed a countersuit against Nirvana, questioning whether or not Kurt Cobain actually created the band’s smiley face logo, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The new ...

Logo trademarked by band in 1992. ... Nirvana ‘sues’ Marc Jacobs for putting famous smiley face design on T-shirt. Logo trademarked by band in 1992. Olivia Petter.