{"id":38876,"date":"2025-04-16T00:42:32","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T00:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/16\/saints-win-fleur-de-lis-trademark-case-over-alleged-descendant-of-french-royalty\/"},"modified":"2025-04-16T00:42:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T00:42:32","slug":"saints-win-fleur-de-lis-trademark-case-over-alleged-descendant-of-french-royalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/16\/saints-win-fleur-de-lis-trademark-case-over-alleged-descendant-of-french-royalty\/","title":{"rendered":"Saints win fleur-de-lis trademark case over alleged descendant of French royalty"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Court rules Vermont man lacks standing in lawsuit<\/li>\n<li>Plaintiff could not demonstrate concrete injury<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A man who claims to be a \u201cdirect descendant of the Kings of France\u201d has lost his legal bid to wrest control of the fleur-de-lis symbol from the New Orleans Saints, after a US appeals court found he had no standing to challenge the team\u2019s decades-old trademark.<\/p>\n<p>Michel J Messier of Rutland, Vermont, argued that his family held intellectual property rights to the fleur-de-lis due to their alleged royal lineage, citing ancestral ties to the monarchs of France, Scotland, Aragon, and Castille. The NFL franchise, which has used the stylized lily symbol since its inception in 1967, registered the trademark in 1974 for use in professional football entertainment.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/apr\/15\/saints-fleur-de-lis-lawsuit-french-kings\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Court rules Vermont man lacks standing in lawsuit Plaintiff could not demonstrate concrete injury A man who claims to be a \u201cdirect descendant of the Kings of France\u201d has lost his legal bid to wrest control of the fleur-de-lis symbol from the New Orleans Saints, after a US appeals court found he had no standing &#8230; <a title=\"Saints win fleur-de-lis trademark case over alleged descendant of French royalty\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/16\/saints-win-fleur-de-lis-trademark-case-over-alleged-descendant-of-french-royalty\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Saints win fleur-de-lis trademark case over alleged descendant of French royalty\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}