Social video app Triller Inc. and owner Ryan Kavanaugh are facing claims by bare knuckles fight promoter BYB Extreme Fighting Series LLC that they copied its patented triangle-shaped fighting surface for use in their competing Triller Fight Club LLC.
The complaint, filed by BYB and Lights Out Productions LLC, alleges Lights Out holds a design patent, copyright registration, and trademark registration for the “TRIGON” triangle ring design, and BYB is the exclusive licensee of its intellectual property interests.
Triller and Kavanaugh, a rising Hollywood studio mogul, infringed on those rights when announcing in October they will be sponsoring a “Triad ...