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Lady Gaga may have been on the wrong sides of a few lawsuits of late but this time she is hitting back at a company putting out 'sexy' clothing under her namesake.
The jeans, designed by Philip Scott, are described as 'sexitized easy access jeans” featuring a horizontal zipper across the crotch area. "When you see someone real fine-looking wearing them," he promises on his website, "your mind can only go one place and that is to the zipper."
Gaga has responded in a letter from her solicitors obtained by Radar Online:
"It has come to our client’s attention that you have filed an application to register the mark GAGAJEANS and are using the GAGAJEANS mark in connection with the jeans,” Gaga’s attorneys wrote ” … In particular, you have misappropriated the dominant feature of our client’s mark, GAGA, and merely added the generic term “jeans.” Your use and registration of the GAGAJEANS mark is likely to cause confusion, mistake, and deception of consumers that Lady Gaga is affiliated with or has sponsored, endorsed, or is otherwise associated with your jeans, and is also likely to dilute the distinctiveness of our client’s trademark."
According to the solicitors Scott also commented on Lady Gaga's Youtube videos directing viewers to his website to purchase the garments. As a result his website gagajeans.com has been suspended following the cease and desist request.
In response Scott has put out a statement saying:
'I have never in any comments or actions tried to fool anyone into believing Lady Gaga is in any way connected to or associated with Gagajeans. Lady Gaga just wants to trademark the name ‘Gaga’ and has not or cannot. This is not my fault. If she had trademarked the name ‘Gaga,’ then I would not have applied for the name Gagajeans for my trademark. But again, you should discuss this with the trademark office as they allowed me to legally apply for this trademark. I will not cancel my application for the Gagajeans trademark. If the application is denied by the trademark office (which is likely), I will not use it. But until then, take a chill pill and wait for the trademark office to do their job!”
Meanwhile Lady Gaga has released the tracklist for 'Artpop'. Click here to check it out.
