Pepperdine University filed a lawsuit against Netflix and Warner Bros. Discovery Thursday for alleged trademark infringement over Mind Kaling’s upcoming comedy series “Running Point.”
The upcoming series centers around a fictional party girl, played by actor Kate Hudson, who inherits her family’s Los Angeles NBA basketball team, “the Waves.”
Pepperdine argued that Netflix and Warner Bros. “misappropriated” their Malibu, California university, whose NCAA basketball team is also named the Waves. The university also argues that the show also used its basketball team’s colors, orange and blue, and promotes a specific fictional player’s number 37. The number worn by Pepperdine’s mascot and is associated with the year the university was founded, 1937.
“Running Point’s portrayal of the “Waves” team will cause consumer confusion and falsely suggest an affiliation between Pepperdine and the show,” the university said in a press release. “The university has also expressed deep concerns about some of the series’
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