FKA Twigs has been countersued for trademark infringement in her ongoing legal battle with indie band The Twigs.
Less than two months after the Grammy-winning artist filed a lawsuit against The Twigs, twin sisters Laura and Linda Good have now fired off trademark claims of their own, Billboard reports.
The singer, born Tahliah Barnett, filed a lawsuit against the duo in March, claiming they have known about her use of FKA Twigs since 2013.
Barnett claims she offered the band $15,000 (£11,000) to allow their musical entities to “co-exist”, without needing to purchase the name from them. According to the complaint, “Laura and Linda declined and stressed that they did not consent to this proposed co-existence.”
In May 2024, according to Barnett’s original lawsuit, The Twigs then allegedly attempted to “weaponise these barred and unmeritorious trademark claims” by issuing cease-and-desist letters to Barnett “threatening litigation, including threats to disrupt Barnett’s decade-long, uninterrupted use of the FKA Twigs mark for Defendants’ own gain”.
In their own complaint filed on Monday and obtained by Billboard, The Twigs have countersued for trademark infringement. They claim that after Barnett released her album Magdalene in 2019, she began to drop the ‘FKA’ in certain public appearances and alleged she “intentionally used her celebrity to act in ways designed to increase the public’s association of Barnett and her musical services with ‘Twigs’.
The indie band is requesting a legal injunction that would prohibit Barnett from using the stage name FKA Twigs, and are also seeking an unspecified financial damages for trademark infringement and unfair competition.
