Less than two months after FKA Twigs filed a lawsuit against the Twigs, alleging the indie band sent multiple cease-and-desist letters over the trademark connected to her stage name, twin sisters Laura Good and Linda Good are now firing off trademark claims of their own.
In March, the Grammy-winning artist born Tahliah Barnett filed a lawsuit against the duo, claiming they have known about her use of FKA Twigs since 2013. In an email exchange, Barnett allegedly offered the band $15,000 to allow their musical entities to “co-exist,” without needing to purchase the name from them. According to the complaint, “Laura and Linda declined and stressed that they did not consent to this proposed co-existence.”
Then, in May 2024, according to Barnett’s original lawsuit, the Twigs allegedly attempted to “weaponize these barred and unmeritorious trademark claims” by issuing cease-and-desist letters to Barnett “threatening litigation, including threats to enjoin Barnett’s use of her mark, in order to disrupt Barnett’s decade-long, uninterrupted use of the FKA TWIGS mark for Defendants’ own gain.”
The sisters allegedly “have threatened to seek an injunction preventing Barnett from using her stage name, demanded a significant seven-figure payout to release any alleged claims against Barnett.”
In their own complaint filed on Monday, May 11, and obtained by Billboard, the Twigs countersued for trademark infringement. They claimed that after Barnett released her album Magdelene in 2019, the artist began to drop the “FKA” in certain public appearances and alleged she “intentionally used her celebrity and resulting power with the media to act in ways designed to increase the public’s association of Barnett and her musical services with ‘Twigs,’ while eroding and overwhelming counterclaim-plaintiffs’ goodwill … in those same musical channels of commerce.”
The indie band is requesting a legal injunction that would prohibit Barnett from using the stage name “FKA Twigs,” and are also seeking unspecified financial damages for trademark infringement and unfair competition.
Representatives for Barnett and Laura and Linda Good did not immediately respond to a request for comment.