"The owner of FyreTV, the so-called 'Netflix of porn,' says Amazon’s Fire TV infringes on its trademark and confuses customers."

From Courthouse News Service:

Porn Company Asks 11th Circuit for New Shot at Trademark Suit Against Amazon 

An Amazon Fire TV system is seen at a retail store in Canada. 

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ATLANTA (CN) — The owner of porn streaming service FyreTV asked an 11th Circuit panel Thursday to revive a trademark lawsuit claiming consumers could confuse the platform with Amazon’s Fire TV service. 

A Florida federal judge tossed out Wreal LLC’s lawsuit in 2019, finding that it was unlikely consumers would mistake FyreTV, a pay-per-view hardcore porn streaming service that markets itself as “the Netflix of porn,” for Amazon’s Fire TV set-top box. 

An attorney for Wreal told a three-judge panel of the Atlanta-based appeals court Thursday morning that the potential for consumer confusion was obvious: “One just needs to hear the words ‘Fire TV.’ They sound exactly the same,” Carlos Nunez-Vivas of Waserstein & Nunez said....

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 Intellectual property law can be so, ahhh, creative.