Yoko Doing All Yoko-ish Things, Again.

From CELE|BITCHY -- Leave it to Yoko Ono to try to ruin the recording industry for everyone. Everyone whose first name beings with an L and ends with an ennon. Check out the havoc she's trying to wreck on this newish metal chick, after the jump! Yoko Ono suing musician over the use of name “Lennon” A legal battle between John Lennon’s widow, Yoko Ono, and a young, unknown female musician whose birth name is Lennon is starting to get noticed by media outlets and even John’s oldest son, Julian. According to her MySpace blog, Lennon Murphy, a heavy metal musician who was named after the iconic singer/songwriter, has been contacted by Yoko Ono’s attorneys and ordered to stop using the name or face legal ramifications. Ono claims that the rock singer is using her husband’s name in an exploitative manner to intentionally confuse people and boost sales of her CD. Lennon says she dropped her surname, Murphy, eight years ago because it is her father’s name and means nothing to her– leaving her to go by her birth name, Lennon. Both her band and her debut CD, which until recently was on the Arista record label, were named “Lennon.” Yoko Ono filed what is for the most part a law suit with the Trademark and Trial Board of the US Patent & Trademark office this past week… Yoko waited 8 years until 2 days before the statue of limitations ran out to file this complaint. 5 lawyers including 2 trademark experts we have spoken with agree that Yoko has no grounds for these claims and is just trying to push Lennon around and make her spend money she doesn’t have. Yoko seeks to gain the rights to the Trademark “LENNON” which Lennon Murphy has owned since 2003. [From Lennon’s MySpace blog] Lennon claims that her record label ran concerns about the trademark infringement past Ono and her attorneys eight years ago, when the singer first dropped her surname. At that time, she claims, Yoko had no problems with
	Published: 2008-02-12 Provider: VH1