Beyoncé wins legal battle in trademarking Blue Ivy’s name
One of the world’s best-selling music artistes (having sold over 100 million records worldwide), Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter, yesterday (Thursday) won a lingering legal battle instituted against her by a lady flower shop owner in the United States of America.
The said lady has a flower shop called BLUE IVY and was using Blue Ivy Carter (Beyonce son’s name) to promote her shop and would always use the boy’s birthday to promote her sales and blowouts. So Beyonce wanted to trade mark the name BLUE IVY CARTER, and the flower shop lady got mad and sued Beyonce, claiming she had the name first.
But the case turned in favour of the 38 years old R&B, Pop and Hip hop singer, songwriter, actress, record producer and dancer who rose to fame in the late 1990s as the lead singer of Destiny’s Child, one of the best-selling girl groups of all times.
Hear what the mother of three and wife of Jay-Z who is worth $400m said in a tweet after the court judgement:
“People wanted to make products based on our child’s name, and you don’t want anybody trying to benefit off your baby’s name. It wasn’t for us to do anything; as you see, we haven’t done anything. It’s a child, and it bothers me when there are no boundaries.”
Big congratulations to the American superstar who was born and raised in Houston, Texas.
