Kim Kardashian’s wedding to Kris Humphries was the event of the season — but owing to complaining neighbors, guests couldn’t dance until the break of dawn. The socialite and her basketball player hubby hosted hundreds at a Montecito estate but were evidently a little too noisy.
“Around midnight DJ Cassidy, who had been spinning for an hour, was ordered to shut down because the neighbors were complaining about the volume of the music,” a source relayed to Page Six. “The neighbors didn’t come over, but they called the police.”
The new bride “took the news OK and seemed relaxed about it, but her sister Khloe was pretty upset and making a bit of a scene,” added the source. “She kept talking to the wedding planner to see if there was anything they could do, but there wasn’t.”
“But the party kept going anyway and most people stayed until about 2 a.m.,” noted the source. “Despite the early end to the dancing, everyone had a great time, and Kim looked beautiful and very happy.”
And the newlyweds weren’t the only ones who seemed very much in love at the reception: Eva Longoria and beau Eduardo Cruz were “all over each other all night,” a source told the New York Daily News, and were sighted “making out.”
Though they’re soon due to film her reality show “Kourtney and Kim Take New York,” the new Mr. and Mrs. Humphries have reportedly managed to find time to fly out of LAX on a getaway to Europe, including Paris, the romance capital of the world. Le sigh!
Can a color be trademarked? The answer is it could be. Trademark registrations have been granted for colors in the past. (See here for the USPTO's standard). But it appears, for shoe designer Christian Louboutin, the answer is…no. Louboutin has been making shoes for the last few years with a trademarked “lacquered red sole.” The ubiquitous soles have turned up on many a red carpet, on the feet of many a celebrity. In fact, as CNN.com reports, even Jennifer Lopez has a song that mentions Louboutin’s in the lyrics. But recently, fellow shoemaker and competitor Yves Saint Laurent announced a new line of shoes featuring shiny red soles, and began production. Not surprisingly, the shoes sold well. But when Louboutin sued Laurent for trademark infringement and sought an injunction, things got sticky. Can something as simple as a color be trademarked? Well, Louboutin did in fact obtain a trademark registration for the red heels in 2008. But according to last week’s decision by a U.S. District Court Judge Victor Marrero in the Southern District of New York, it can’t. At least not in this case. The decision was based on the idea that any rule that denies an artist the use of a certain color in his or her craft is too restrictive. Specifically, Judge Marrero states, “Because in the fashion industry color serves ornamental and aesthetic functions vital to robust competition, the court finds that Louboutin is unlikely to be able to prove that its red outsole brand is entitled to trademark protection, even if it has gained enough public recognition in the market to have acquired secondary meaning.”
