September 20, 2021
Ice Cube saw his trademark lawsuit against investment app Robinhood over its newsletter featuring a still frame of him from one of his movies tossed for good on Monday, as a federal magistrate judge said his amended complaint didn't add anything to preserve it.
September 16, 2021
A California federal magistrate judge considering Robinhood's motion to dismiss Ice Cube's amended trademark suit struggled to decide Thursday whether Robinhood's newsletter falsely conveyed the rappers' endorsement when it featured his image and a parody tagline, wondering aloud "is it sort of an ad, or is it a newsletter?"
June 15, 2021
A federal magistrate judge has dismissed — for now — a lawsuit filed by Ice Cube against investment app Robinhood over a company newsletter that featured a still frame from one of his movies above a cheeky allusion to his lyrics.
June 10, 2021
A California magistrate judge said Thursday that she's having a hard time seeing how Robinhood's use of Ice Cube's image and part of the chorus from the rapper's song "Check Yo Self" in a newsletter amounted to an implied endorsement of the financial product, saying she's leaning toward nixing Ice Cube's trademark infringement suit.
April 23, 2021
Robinhood asked a California federal court to dismiss Ice Cube's trademark infringement suit, arguing the First Amendment protects its use of a still frame from a movie starring the rapper along with a parody tagline in an article in the online trading platform's noncommercial newsletter.
March 31, 2021
Rapper and actor Ice Cube hit Robinhood with a trademark infringement suit in California federal court Wednesday, claiming the popular online trading platform — a "scam" that he "wants nothing to do with" — used his image in a promotion without his permission.