The 9th Circuit has ruled that Paris Hilton can continue pursuing a lawsuit against Hallmark Cards over the use of her picture and catchphrase "That's hot" on a greeting card. Hilton sued the company in 2007 after it began selling, without her permission, birthday cards of a cartoon of a waitress serving food to a patron. A photo of Hilton's face was pasted on the cartoon's body. Hilton alleges that the card ripped off her appearance as a waitress in an episode of her reality TV show "The Simple Life."
September 01, 2009 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
An appeals court has ruled that Paris Hilton can continue pursuing a lawsuit against Hallmark Cards Inc. over the use of her picture and catch phrase “That’s hot” on a greeting card.
Hilton sued the company in 2007 after it began selling without her permission birthday cards of a cartoon of a waitress serving a plate of food to a patron. A photo of Hilton’s face was pasted on the cartoon’s body.
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