{"id":69605,"date":"2026-03-20T22:56:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T03:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/ncaa-sues-draftkings-for-march-madness-trademark-infringement\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T22:56:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T03:56:04","slug":"ncaa-sues-draftkings-for-march-madness-trademark-infringement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/ncaa-sues-draftkings-for-march-madness-trademark-infringement\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA sues DraftKings for March Madness trademark infringement"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>NCAA files trademark suit against DraftKings<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Seeks ban on \u2018March Madness\u2019 betting promotions<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Claims use misleads fans on NCAA endorsement<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The NCAA filed a complaint in federal court Friday seeking an emergency restraining order to stop online sportsbook DraftKings from using registered trademarks associated with the NCAA men\u2019s and women\u2019s basketball tournaments.<\/p>\n<p>The complaint for trademark infringement was filed in the Southern District of Indiana and requests that DraftKings stop using terms including \u201cMarch Madness\u201d, \u201cFinal Four\u201d, \u201cElite Eight\u201d and \u201cSweet Sixteen\u201d or variations of them in sports betting products, promotional campaigns or marketing.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/mar\/20\/ncaa-draftkings-lawsuit-march-madness-trademark\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NCAA files trademark suit against DraftKings Seeks ban on \u2018March Madness\u2019 betting promotions Claims use misleads fans on NCAA endorsement The NCAA filed a complaint in federal court Friday seeking an emergency restraining order to stop online sportsbook DraftKings from using registered trademarks associated with the NCAA men\u2019s and women\u2019s basketball tournaments. The complaint for &#8230; <a title=\"NCAA sues DraftKings for March Madness trademark infringement\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/ncaa-sues-draftkings-for-march-madness-trademark-infringement\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about NCAA sues DraftKings for March Madness trademark infringement\">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-69605","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\/69605","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=69605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}