Political news outlet NOTUS Media LLC must at least temporarily put aside plans to rebrand to “The Star” because another online outlet has been using its registered “Washington Star” trademark since 2023.
The Washington Star Co. will likely prevail in its dispute over who can harness the name of the long-defunct “Washington Star” newspaper, the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia said Tuesday while granting a temporary restraining order.
NOTUS—whose founder Robert Allbritton is the son of former Washington Star owner Joe Allbritton—had publicly touted the resurrection of the daily publication that ran from 1852 to 1981 ...
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