NOTUS will not become a Star

NOTUS, a Wash­ing­ton-area news out­let, has settled a trade­mark infringe­ment law­suit with the Wash­ing­ton Star and will not change its name to the Star as it had planned. Instead, as a term of the deal, the out­let will pick a new name, reports The Washington Post.

The Wash­ing­ton Star sued NOTUS, states The Post, “after it announced it would change its name to the Star and, earlier this month, a fed­eral judge blocked NOTUS from assum­ing its new moniker, find­ing it was too sim­ilar to that of the Wash­ing­ton Star.”

“Both parties have amic­ably resolved the mat­ter,” a NOTUS spokes­per­son wrote in a state­ment “We con­tinue to work toward a new name.” The Wash­ing­ton Star vol­un­tar­ily dis­missed its law­suit.

The terms of the set­tle­ment were not imme­di­ately clear bey­ond the decision for NOTUS to aban­don its pur­suit of renam­ing itself the Star.

More on the story here: https://capitolcommunicator.com/notus-to-become-the-star-to-fill-void-it-says-was-left-by-cuts-at-the-washington-post/#