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Owner Of Beauty Concepts Sues Kim Kardashian For SKKN Trademark Infringement

<p>Just weeks after Twitter was discussing the similarities between a Black-owned business and <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;&quest;s&equals;kim&plus;kardashian&amp&semi;post&lowbar;type&equals;post"><strong>Kim Kardashian<&sol;strong><&sol;a>&&num;8216&semi;s SKKN skincare line&comma; the owner of Beauty Concepts has filed a lawsuit against the reality star for trademark infringement&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to documents obtained by <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;tmz&period;com&sol;2022&sol;06&sol;28&sol;kim-kardashian-sued-skkn-brand&sol;">TMZ<&sol;a>&comma; it’s said that the owner of Beauty Concepts says she &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;owns the rights to &&num;8220&semi;SKKN&plus;&&num;8221&semi; and says Kim&&num;8217&semi;s use of the moniker on her beauty products is confusing customers&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Kim’s team denies the infringement claims and claims &&num;8220&semi;this lawsuit is not what it seems&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Michael Rhodes&comma; Kim&&num;8217&semi;s attorney continued&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>SKKN BY KIM is a new brand that follows in the footsteps of Ms&period; Kardashian&&num;8217&semi;s successful KKW line of products&period; Building on independent research and development&comma; her company filed a trademark application for SKKN BY KIM to protect the new branded products&period; This prompted the current shakedown effort&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>Rhodes continued to say&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p> We applaud Ms&period; Lunsford for being a small business owner and following her dreams&period; But that doesn’t give her the right to wrongfully claim that we’ve done something wrong&period; In its letter&comma; Beauty Concepts claimed to own rights to a logo made up of SKKN&plus;&comma; and had just filed for trademark protection for that logo&period; The business was a one-person shop offering facials from a single Brooklyn location&period; The salon had no signage and was by appointment only&period; To our knowledge&comma; Beauty Concepts sold no products under the SKKN&plus;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>He also stated&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>Beauty Concepts asked that we drop the SKKN name&period; Of course&comma; we said no&period; Beauty Concepts then challenged Ms&period; Kardashian’s trademark applications at the USPTO&period; Unsurprisingly&comma; the USPTO rejected Beauty Concepts’ own SKKN&plus; mark saying that &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;skkn” just means &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;skin&period;” Undaunted&comma; Beauty Concepts then tried to make its business seem more than it was – it leased a new storefront&comma; changed its website&comma; etc&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>As of now&comma; the two are headed to court&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Roomies&comma; what do y&&num;8217&semi;all think of this&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine; <div class&equals;"wpra-reactions-wrap wpra-plugin-container" style&equals;"justify-content&colon; center&semi;&semi;"> <div class&equals;"wpra-reactions-container" data-ver&equals;"1&period;3&period;10" data-post&lowbar;id&equals;"92495" data-show&lowbar;count&equals;"true" data-enable&lowbar;share&equals;"onclick" data-behavior&equals;"regular" data-animation&equals;"true" data-share&lowbar;url&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;owner-of-beauty-concepts-sues-kim-kardashian-for-skkn-trademark-infringement&sol;" data-secure&equals;"2a1d850594"> <div class&equals;"wpra-call-to-action" style&equals;"color&colon; 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