Baltimore punk band files suit against Old Navy

Suggesting that major corporations didn't learn from the Air MacKaye incident between Nike and Minor Threat, popular clothing brand Old Navy has apparently appropriated a flyer design by Baltimore, Maryland's Oxes.

While not a mainstream band, the group is well known enough to have opened for Cheap Trick and the Breeders and the appropriation did not go unnoticed.

While the band has taken a light-hearted look at the issue on their website, a recent article in the New York Post took a sterner approach with the band's lawyer, Carmen Giordano, saying:

This is indefensible. Old Navy has exploited their hard-edged image. The connection is completely contrary to their fiercely anti-establishment philosophy . . . and sullies their image.

Giordano has filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against Old Navy which is owned by GAP.
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