A Note From the Founder & CEO of Meowingtons

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If there’s a time for women entrepreneurs to prevail, it’s now. I won’t be bullied into submission over something I’ve worked so hard for. 

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Being involved in a lawsuit is irritating and at times distracting. Rather than let Mr. Zimmerman’s harsh and undignified comments get me down, I am instead re-energized to continue building my business, serving loyal customers and the larger Meowingtons.com community to make it even better with more cat-themed fashions, accessories, and pet products than ever before. I want this matter to serve as an example to encourage every woman business owner to stand up for themselves, especially now when women’s rights and equality are in the public eye during Women's History Month.

I also don’t want to lose sight of what’s important at hand here. I started meowingtons.com as a place for cat lovers to unite, share, and most importantly laugh over the undeniably hilarious creatures we call cats. I’ll be even more energized through this ordeal if cat lovers would come together and create more life-changing bonds between humans and cats by supporting the Humane Society and all the hard work of its volunteers who have dedicated their lives to saving animals and finding them forever homes. 

Community support is really appreciated via sharing this post, leaving a comment, and if you’d like, donate to the Humane Society here:

 - Emma Bassiri

 

 


24 comments


  • Alexa

    What in the literal f is wrong with you people. Idk if you psycho dead mouse fans are aware but like 95% of the world doesn’t listen to him or even know who the f he is so how can you expect some random person to know his cats name is meowington?? Also, he actually didn’t already have a trade mark for it, he tried to trademark it and found this websites existence and than he threw a little b**ch fit in typical dead mouse fashion and lost 😂 AND ALSO he didn’t invent the word meowingtons it’s a very common cat name.


  • Cynthia J. Campbell

    Using ’women’s rights ’ blah blah blah as a lame, convenient, go-to excuse to try and evoke sympathy for a blatant theft of trademark, copyright and patent that Joel created years before you is illegal. As an attorney myself who had not even heard of you prior to seeing a small blurb in a local Bar Journal, I can assure the posters on this site that Joel SHOULD win, but if he gets ahold of an Obama feminist judge and does not, he should have no problem wiping the floor with your whiny, grasping, feminist ’I’m a victim’ ass on appeal.


  • Kenda

    This has absolutely NOTHING to do with womens rights. Why are you blaming that as a reason?


  • E Chris

    Why are throwing a lawsuit against Joel. I mean, you sell cat necklaces, and stuff for women. Deadmau5 uses his own cat’s name and creates logos for shirts out of his cat and Ideas. He was surprised that someone had taken his cat name; meowingtons. He doesn’t affect your business at all. Is totally different from you. I believe it only makes you look like someone that wants money out of a lawsuit. He used that name before you.

    Zimmerman is also suing Scott Hutchison, a former Toronto DJ who manages the cat-themed merchandise website. The complaint includes a social media screenshot of a photo Hutchison shared in 2010 of deadmau5 tracks playing on his computer. Zimmerman says it’s “simply inconceivable” that Hutchison was unaware of his pet Meowingtons when the website registered its trademark.

    Smells fishy.


  • sqsw0810

    About the word “Meowingtons”, and the claim that “it is too original and can’t be coincidence”, I would like to quote Ross from “Friends” episode 207 (1995): “Can I come over tomorrow and pick up Fluffy Meowington’s cat toy”. Did the writers get the name from deadmau5 (active from 1998, cat adopted in 2010) as well? He can’t claim the rights to every word he has ever used.

    About the rights to the brand name, just let a judge make the call and focus on your own life.

    These comments by angry fans only mean “boredom”, “lack of education” and “anger management issues”.


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