has set her legal team on a showgirl and entertainer who has sued the winner for trademark infringement over her 2025 album The Life Of A Showgirl.
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Taylor Swift Takes Legal Action Against Showgirl Lawsuit
Taylor Swift has set her legal team on a Las Vegas showgirl and entertainer who has sued the Grammy winner for trademark infringement over her 2025 album The Li...
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Two months earlier in March, Maren Wade - whose real name is Maren Flagg - filed a lawsuit in federal court,
Flagg's attorney Jaymie Parkkinen previously told the Daily Mail that she had 'spent more than a decade building' her brand Confessions of a Showgirl.
Flagg has asked to be awarded damages and restrict Swift to market her 2025 album under The Life Of A Showgirl title.
Swift's lawyers have since filed their own opposition on Wednesday in response, labeling Wade's claims 'absurd' and her lawsuit 'meritless.'
Her legal team said, 'This motion, just like Maren Flagg's lawsuit, should never have been filed,' per documents obtained by Variety.
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Taylor Swift, 36, has set her legal team on a Las Vegas showgirl and entertainer who has sued the Grammy winner for trademark infringement over her 2025 album The Life Of A Showgirl; seen in March in L.A.
Swift's lawyers have since filed their own opposition on Wednesday in response, labeling Wade's claims 'absurd' and her lawsuit 'meritless'
'It is simply Ms. Flagg's latest attempt to use Taylor Swift's name and intellectual property to prop up her brand…'
Her lawyers stated that Flagg's attempt to compare her and Swift's services was 'absurd.'
Back in March, Flagg filed legal documents in federal court accusing Swift and UMG Recordings of trademark infringement, false designation and unfair competition, according to records reviewed by the Daily Mail; Swift seen in 2024
The live shows, according to Flagg's team, consisted of 'candid and often humorous accounts of the challenges and absurdities of a career in the entertainment industry, from getting stuck inside a giant birthday cake to impersonating a Madonna impersonator.'
Swift had unsuccessfully petitioned the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to register The Life of a Showgirl name - but was turned down on account of Flagg's product, attorneys for Flagg said.
Parkkinen told the Daily Mail that trademark officials found Swift's name 'confusingly similar.'
Despite that, Swift and her team marketed The Life of a Showgirl phrase on a massive scale, as if it were wholly original, Flagg told the court.
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'Within weeks, the designation was affixed to consumer goods, stamped onto labels, tags, and packaging, and deployed as a source identifier across retail channels,' Flagg's legal team said in its filing.
Parkkinen told the Daily Mail that trademark officials found Swift's name 'confusingly similar'; seen in 2024 in New Orleans
Despite that, Swift and her team marketed The Life of a Showgirl phrase on a massive scale, as if it were wholly original, Flagg told the court
Attorneys for Flagg said in the filing that Swift's marketing was 'all directed at the same audience Plaintiff had spent years cultivating.'
Swift marketing the phrase to millions of fans continues an 'erosion' of Flagg's brand, her lawyers said.
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'Those are not artistic choices,' Flagg's lawyers said in the filing. 'They are commercial decisions, and they have consequences.'
Flagg's attorneys said the name of the product misleads consumers into thinking she had copied Swift's product, when it was the other way around.
Swift possesses more than 170 active or pending trademark registrations, which encompasses specific names and phrases, under her brands TAS Rights Management and Bravado; seen in 2025 in L.A.
Swift possesses more than 170 active or pending trademark registrations, which encompasses specific names and phrases, under her brands TAS Rights Management and Bravado.
Flagg's lawyers said that Swift and her team 'are not merely familiar with trademark law - they are among its most vigorous enforcers, having filed multiple federal actions to seize goods from vendors selling trademarked merchandise near concert venues.
'They possess direct knowledge of the harm that trademark infringement inflicts on a brand, having leveraged that very harm in federal court when it served their interests to do so.'
The Life of a Showgirl, which marked the 12th studio album release for Swift, came out last October to huge anticipation. It broke a number of streaming records via Spotify, and ended the year as its best-selling album.
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