Wu-Tang Clan member goes after pun-loving dog walkers

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Not everyone likes a pun, especially RZA.

The Wu-Tang Clan member, otherwise known as Robert Diggs, is taking legal action against a Brooklyn dog-walking company for violating the hip hop group’s copyright with their name, reports the The New York Daily News.

Woof-Tang Clan, which operates out of Brooklyn, has been accused of using an appropriation of the Staten Island group’s name and logo.

Diggs has owned the “Wu-Tang” and “Wu-Tang Clan” trademarks since Feb. 24, 2009, but Woof-Tang Clan filed for its own trademark on June 8, 2017. According to recently filed court papers unpacked by the Daily News, Diggs says this is a violation of his registered trademarks, and that the group’s name and logo have been “unmistakably associated” with the group since the 1990s. Read more…

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