{"id":1605,"date":"2012-02-26T16:35:57","date_gmt":"2012-02-26T21:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thats-pat.com\/?p=1605"},"modified":"2012-02-26T16:36:10","modified_gmt":"2012-02-26T21:36:10","slug":"1605","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thats-pat.com\/?p=1605","title":{"rendered":"MJ FILES LAWSUIT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Jordan is filing a lawsuit against a major Chinese sports apparel company, Qiaodan Sports Company Limited, for &#8220;unauthorized use&#8221; of his name and brand. The company name Qiaodan means Jordan in Chinese. In addition to using Jordan&#8217;s name they have also filed for similar trademarks such as the number 23, as well as trademarks for the names of Jordan&#8217;s 2 sons, Marcus and Jeffrey. Qiaodan generated over $450 million in 2010. Jordan discusses his stance in the following video.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Michael Jordan Files Lawsuit in China for Improper Use of His Name\" width=\"490\" height=\"276\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RdneJ6G1tKw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>via:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/hypebeast.com\/\">HYPEBEAST<\/a>\u00a0and China Daily<\/p>\n<div data-counters='1' data-style='square' data-size='regular' data-url='http:\/\/www.thats-pat.com\/?p=1605' data-title='MJ FILES LAWSUIT' class='linksalpha_container linksalpha_app_3'><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='facebook' class='linksalpha_icon_facebook'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='twitter' class='linksalpha_icon_twitter'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='googleplus' class='linksalpha_icon_googleplus'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='mail' class='linksalpha_icon_mail'><\/a><\/div><div data-position='' data-url='http:\/\/www.thats-pat.com\/?p=1605' data-title='MJ FILES LAWSUIT' class='linksalpha_container linksalpha_app_7'><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='facebook' class='linksalpha_icon_facebook'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='twitter' class='linksalpha_icon_twitter'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='googleplus' class='linksalpha_icon_googleplus'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='mail' class='linksalpha_icon_mail'><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Jordan is filing a lawsuit against a major Chinese sports apparel company, Qiaodan Sports Company Limited, for &#8220;unauthorized use&#8221; of his name and brand. The company name Qiaodan means Jordan in Chinese. In addition to using Jordan&#8217;s name they have also filed for similar trademarks such as the number 23, as well as trademarks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-7-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thats-pat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thats-pat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thats-pat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thats-pat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thats-pat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1605"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.thats-pat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1608,"href":"http:\/\/www.thats-pat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605\/revisions\/1608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thats-pat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thats-pat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thats-pat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}