Wal-Mart grabbed the image as it’s corporate logo in 1996 and fought The Smiley company over it and finally settled in 2007, the terms unknown. And the man who first came up with it made $45 ...

Nirvana’s logo – a yellow smiley face with X’d-out eyes — first appeared during promotion for 1991’s Nevermind.The design eventually became something of an unofficial emblem for the band ...

Nirvana first brought the suit in Dec. 2018, accusing Marc Jacobs of copyright and trademark infringement over a T-shirt they said ripped off the band’s signature happy face design — with X ...

Nirvana's attorneys alleged that the company has used the smiley face design and logo continuously since 1992 to identify its music and licensed merchandise. The design has been licensed for use ...

As former Journal Sentinel columnist Jim Stingl noted in 2013, we’ve seen five different Betty Crockers during that time span, and Pepsi has tweaked its logo four times since Summerfest began.

A years-long legal fight over Nirvana‘s iconic smiley face logo could be headed for a major showdown, sparked by a former record label art designer who says he, not Kurt Cobain, created the ...

Marc Jacobs’s smiley face, which was part of both clothing designs and general marketing promotion for the collection, looks the same but swaps in an “M” and “J” for the X’s.

The rock band first filed the lawsuit against Marc Jacobs in 2018, when the brand released its “Bootleg Redux Grunge” T-shirts and sweatshirts, which featured happy face graphics that Nirvana ...

Nirvana, grunge-rock pioneers and one of the best-selling bands of all time, sued Marc Jacobs in 2018 over the logo, a crudely drawn face with crossed-out eyes and a tongue-out smile.