Latino GDP Project Creator Sues Rival Think Tank Over Trademark

An organization that annually calculates the economic contribution of Latinos in the US sued a competing think tank in Los Angeles federal court, alleging trademark infringement.

The Latino Donor Collaborative and Arizona State University used the organization’s trademarked “Latino GDP” phrase “in an attempt to free-ride off Plaintiff’s hard-won public trust to produce competing reports and data, though reliant on inferior underlying calculating tools and algorithms,” the complaint filed Friday in the US District Court for the Central District of California alleged.

The Latino GDP Project stems from efforts starting in 2004 by David Hayes-Bautista, with the help of Werner ...