The dispute between Ric Flair and WWE is over. It all started over the ownership of the rights to “The Man” trademark.
It was revealed on Friday that the WWE Hall of Famer recently reached a deal to transfer the rights to his two trademarks for the company.
USPTO (United States Patent & Trademark Office) shows in its listings that Flair’s LLC assigned the entire interest and the goodwill of the trademarks to WWE on Tuesday, May 19.
These are the same trademarks that started the tension between the two sides as Flair filed for it on August 22, 2019 and August 26, 2019. This came after WWE had billed former RAW Women’s Champion Becky Lynch as “The Man.”
The reason for that is due to his feeling that the intellectual properties belonged to him as he had used that name for years.
During this time, Flair went public about the issues in various interviews. In fact, he stated that he thought WWE should have paid him for use of the nickname for Lynch.
Flair mentioned in his original trademark filing that he first used “The Man” in commerce back in 1976. The former WWE Champion recently signed a new deal with the company.
