Kanye West’s lawsuit against an Australian burger bar has been dropped after the rapper stopped replying to communications from the space’s lawyers.West filed the suit last year, claiming Victoria burger joint College Dropout Burgers and its owner Mark Elkhouri were using the name of his 2004 album ‘The College Dropout’ without his permission.
The star also alleged that the branding constituted misleading and deceptive conduct.However, according to WAtoday, the lawsuit has now been dropped after the rapper became unreachable.
Elkhouri’s lawyers told a court on Friday (February 10) that the star had not responded to any of their attempts at communication with regard to securing legal costs before the case got underway.“The applicant has taken a single substantive step so far in this proceeding, which is to initiate it… and then nothing since then,” lawyer Craig Smith said. “None of the various requests… none of those have been answered with any substance.”A post shared by College Dropout Burgers ™ (@collegedropoutburgers)The lawsuit, which was filed in October, claimed that being associated with the restaurant would cause loss and damages to West’s brand. “Ye has suffered, and will continue to suffer, loss and damage,” the document read. “Ye has sold more than 140 million records internationally and is one of the best-selling artists of all time.”Elkhouri was first given a cease-and-desist letter in February 2021 from West, five months before the burger bar opened.
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