BAYC copycat files opposition to 10 Yuga Labs trademark applications
A Yuga Labs spokesperson has played down the significance of the opposition notice and suggested that the RR/BAYC co-founder is just trying to cause trouble. One of the founders of the Bored Ape Yacht Club copycat NFT collection RR/BAYC has filed an opposition notice against 10 trademark applications from Yuga Labs. The move marks another strange twist in the ongoing intellectual property dispute between BAYC creators Yuga Labs and RR/BAYC founders Ryder Ripps and Jeremy Cahen. Cahen filed the opposition notice to the US Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO’s) Trademark Trial and Appeal Board on Feb. 9. The opposition status on all of the trademark filings currently read “pending” at the time of writing. Yuga Labs’ trademark applications were mostly submitted in the latter half of 2021, and cover a bunch of BAYC logos, artwork and branding for potential use across digital products such as NFT-based art, trading cards and Metaverse wearables. The filings also list the potential fo...