FKA twigs presumably has the “FKA” in her name because the name “Twigs” was already taken. When Tahliah Barnett was just starting to use her stage name back in 2014, twin-sister alt-pop duo the Twigs filed a trademark claim against her. The Twigs, the duo of sisters Laura and Linda Good, dropped their lawsuit after losing an initial injunction request. Apparently, though, the Twigs have not stopped sending cease-and-desist letters to FKA twigs in the years since. As a result, twigs asked for a judge’s declaration to end those cease-and-desist letters so that she can keep going with her own registered trademark. Now, the Twigs have hit FKA twigs with a countersuit, attempting to bar FKA twigs from performing under the name “FKA twigs.”
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