A concert promoter in Chapter 7 bankruptcy can’t discharge a $24 million claim for infringing on the trademark of the R&B group The Drifters, says a federal judge in Trenton.
District Judge Freda Wolfson found Barry Singer willfully and maliciously promoted a derivative Drifters group to the injury of the mark’s true owner, Faye Treadwell, creating an exception to discharge under 11 U.S.C. 523(a)(6).
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