Cardi B’s utility to trademark the catchphrase ”Okurr” has been denied.
According to paperwork obtained by The Blast, the US Patent and Trademark Office has filed the time period beneath ”widely-used commonplace expressions”.
The ‘Please Me’ rapper had supposed on utilizing the phrase on an attire line and numerous merchandise.
Officials added that ”Okurr” ”doesn’t perform as a trademark or service mark to point the supply of applicant’s items and/or companies.”
Cardi – who has 11-month-old daughter Kulture with husband Offset – beforehand defended her trademark utility.
She mentioned: ”Every single time I’m going to a company assembly, these people be like, ‘Oh my god, can we please hear you say ”Okurrr’?” … You suppose I ain’t gonna revenue off this shit?! Bitch, white people do it all of the motherfucking time, so that you gonna be mad at me cos I wanna get some mom****ing cash?”
Meanwhile, it was lately reported that the ‘Bodak Yellow’ hitmaker filed a trademark utility for the identify ”Bocktails with Cardi B” as she’d prefer to host a TV programme that’ll see movie star company spill the gossip in entrance of the cameras because the rapper provides them with booze.
According to TMZ, the 26-year-old hip-hop star desires to make use of the identify for ”leisure companies within the nature of offering ongoing episodes for distribution by way of tv and the Internet that includes celebrities and artists.”
She’d additionally prefer to drop some clothes – equivalent to ”T-shirts, sweatshirts, caps, footwear, skirts, clothes, blouses, sweaters, pants and shorts” – beneath the trademark.
And create her personal line of alcohol – ”besides beer and drinks containing beer.”
