Cond Nast Sues Dog-Fashion Magazine Dogue Over 'Vogue' Marks
A dog-fashion magazine titled “Dogue” infringed media behemoth Condé Nast’s trademarks for its famed monthly fashion magazine, “Vogue,” the company told a federal court.
Tasty Work LLC publishes Dogue, a “periodical focusing on dogs, dog fashion and celebrity dog owners,” Advance Magazine Publishers Inc., which does business as Condé Nast, said in its complaint filed Friday in the US District Court for the Central District of California. Dogue used that name to confuse consumers into thinking the publication is affiliated with the media company, the complaint said.
Dogue’s magazine cover page also features the Dogue name in a similar format as the Vogue trademark, Condé Nast wrote. “Eliminating any doubt” that the similar stylization was intentional, Dogue’s Instagram page says Dogue “is in the style of Vogue,” the company said.
Dogue’s website is also “replete” with images of newsstands with issues of Dogue placed next to Vogue magazines, Condé Nast added.
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…multistory food pavilion in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor by the name of Sony’s. IIRC, owned and operated by a petite Filipino lady. Her name was Sony. The Sony corporation sued her and won, and she could no longer use her own name for her own very small, single location business.
A doggy daycare where we live briefly went by the name Starbarks. I thought it was very clever. Same story - Starbucks sued and won.
Corporate wusses! Did the gigantic Sony corporation really feel threatened by a little food vending business, or gigantic Starbucks by a single doggy daycare location? If either of those small businesses had been offering the same products as the corporations, maybe I could see it, but c’mon, man. 
