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NOTUS Cannot Be ‘The Star’: Judge Blocks D.C. News Outlet’s Rebranding

NYT > Business > Media · Katie Robertson · last updated

NOTUS, a political news website, must temporarily suspend its plans to rebrand, a judge ruled in a trademark dispute brought by The Washington Star.

There’s room for only one Star in this town.

That’s according to a federal judge, who on Tuesday ordered the political news website NOTUS to suspend its planned rebrand as The Star, after the owner of a rival publication, The Washington Star, filed for a temporary restraining order in a trademark dispute.

Judge Rossie D. Alston Jr. said the order would “prevent the public from being confused” between the two publications while the legal case continued.

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