Major League Baseball's Cleveland Indians, which is changing its name to the Guardians, was sued for trademark infringement by a local roller derby team also named the Guardians.
Major League Baseball's Cleveland Indians, which is changing its name to the Guardians, was sued for trademark infringement on Wednesday by a local roller derby team also named the Guardians.
"Two sports teams in the same city cannot have identical names," the roller derby team's lawyers said in the complaint filed in Cleveland federal court. The co-ed roller derby team said it has used the Guardians name since 2013, and registered it with Ohio in 2017.Indians spokesman Bart Swain said in an email that the team remains "confident in our position to become the Guardians. We believe there is no conflict between the parties and their ability to operate in their respective business areas."For example, New York had baseball and football teams named the Giants from 1925 to 1957, while St.
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