NFL Who Dat? Chant Legal Dispute Settled

Do you remember just before the 2010 Super Bowl, the NFL sent demanded that T-shirt makers stop selling "Who Dat?" merchandise?

Then the NFL backed down after state officials challenged the league's trademark infringement claims.

The T-shirt sellers' attorneys say Who Dat? Inc. lost whatever trademark rights it may have had years before the Saints won the Super Bowl.

NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy says the settlement calls for the league, the Saints and the company to make co-branded merchandise available to fans.
The agreement doesn't resolve other claims that Who Dat? Inc. filed against several T-shirt shops over alleged trademark violations. A trial for the remaining claims is scheduled to start in April.
Lawyers for the T-shirt shop owners have asked U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier to throw out the claims against them.
"They don't even have the pretense of a valid trademark argument," Ernest Svenson, a lawyer for the Fleurty Girl stores in New Orleans, said of Who Dat Inc. "They're just bullies."
Attorneys for Who Dat? Inc., owned by brothers Sal and Steve Monistere, didn't immediately respond to calls seeking comment.

via DeseretNews.com