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 ...

The Nirvana smiley face logo, allegedly designed by the late Kurt Cobain, has been the subject of a 6-year-long lawsuit between the band’s remaining members, designer Marc Jacobs, and Nirvana ...

The logo that the fashion line Marc Jacobs used to promote a grunge collection looks like Nirvana’s, with an “M” and “J” in place of the X’s. Ben Gabbe/Getty Images for Marc Jacobs ...

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 ...

A complicated years-long three-way lawsuit involving Nirvana 's famous smiley face logo has now been quietly settled out of court. The band sued Marc Jacobs in 2018, claiming the fashion designer ...

Nirvana sued Marc Jacobs International in 2018 after the company launched a “Redux Grunge” collection that featured a smiley face that resembled a bit too much the band’s iconic logo, which ...

Nirvana sued Jacobs along with retailers Saks and Neiman Marcus Group back in 2018. In 2020, Robert Fisher, a Los Angeles designer who worked with Nirvana in the 1990s, joined the lawsuit.

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 ...

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.

After six years of litigation, Nirvana has settled its lawsuit against Marc Jacobs over its use of an illustration strikingly similar to its signature “X”-eyed smiley face logo.