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December 23, 2011

Wimpy Kid author files lawsuit against Zombie Kid publisher

Filed under: Lawsuits — Tags: , , , , — Bookblurb @ 5:18 am

 

Lawsuit

| The Bookseller staff

Jeff Kinney, author of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, has filed a trademark lawsuit against Antarctic Press, publisher of a series of books called Diary of a Zombie Kid, according to US press reports.

Kinney and his company Wimpy Kid Inc. filed the suit on Tuesday this week (20th December) against Antarctic Press in a US District Court in Boston for violating trademark laws by publishing books too similar in appearance to the Wimpy Kid series.

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