DEX Trader Joe’s is staying sued by the well-liked retail chain Trader Joe’s in the United States for copyright infringement.
US retail chain Trader Joe’s is suing DEX exchange Trader Joe’s for alleged trademark copyright infringement, arising from the similarity in between the two names.
On October five, 2023, Trader Joe’s filed a lawsuit towards the crypto venture in a California (USA) court, which named DEX’s founder, Mr. Cheng Chieh Liu, a Chinese citizen residing in China, in Singapore.
The lawsuit claims that DEX Trader Joe’s has obtained economic added benefits from making use of a trademark that has quite a few similarities to the Trader Joe’s retail chain, as effectively as the major red shade in the brand.
The supermarket chain wrote in the lawsuit that it in no way gave Trader Joe’s the correct to use its trademark and experimented with to get in touch with DEX’s founder to inquire him to prevent the copyright infringement. In response, the founder of Trader Joe’s is stated to have taken measures to hide the origin of his project’s title.
Therefore, the Trader Joe’s supermarket chain needs the court to buy DEX to prevent making use of its trademark and to pay out its legal charges.
Trader Joe is a DEX launching in 2021 on the Avalanche blockchain and is a fork of SushiSwap. Recently, Trader Joe’s has expanded to many other networks, such as Arbitrum, BNB Chain, and Ethereum.
Trader Joe’s (TVL) worth locked in the previous 24 hrs was additional than $77 million, down sharply from the record substantial of additional than $two billion at the finish of 2021, in accordance to information from DefiLlama.
The rate of Trader Joe’s JOE token is down somewhat as of this creating due to information that the venture is staying sued for trademark copyright infringement.
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