Sorry Chabo! Anger over shisha tobacco Brudi from arrest warrant

A song from the arrest warrant for rapper Offenbach is called Haram Para. It is illegally earned money. Since the beginning of his career more than a decade ago, Haftbefehl has cleverly increased his own fortune – and completely legally. He would be a multimillionaire now. It started with music, followed by fashion, iced tea and shisha tobacco. Street words like Chabo or Babo appear not only in his writings, but also on the products he sells. The tobaccos have names like Chaya or Locker Easy. He calls the mixture with the blueberry/menthol flavor Brudi.

According to a shisha shop from Velbert in North Rhine-Westphalia, the money Haftzettel earns from blueberry tobacco is black money: Haram Para. The owner of the shisha shop claims that he filed the trademark first and the writ, sorry Chabo, was only second. He has challenged the arrest warrant: this should scrap the brand and no longer sell tobacco under the name Brudi.

Arrest warrant could have saved himself the stress. A search of the German Trademark and Patent Office would have revealed that the shisha shop had actually obtained the naming rights for the sale of tobacco almost six months earlier.

So no chance of an arrest warrant? His lawyer sees it differently. As the Süddeutsche Zeitung reports, he explained before the civil chamber for commercial matters of the Munich court that the rapper came up with the word through his lyrics. The word first appeared in 2012 in his song lyrics Chabos knows who Babo is and only really became popular with the title Frankfurt Brudi from 2015. Therefore, the lawyer argued, the arrest warrant was entitled to the word . The Shisabar owner only jumped on the success of the arrest warrant.

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The court plans to announce its ruling at the end of May. Arrest warrant will likely lose the lawsuit. Because in court it is not who has brought the slang from the street to Spotify that counts, but who is the first to register the naming rights. And here the arrest warrant came too late for various branches: already in 2016, a Frankfurter acquired the name rights for, for example, the sale of condoms, clothing and tea. Brand names like Chill Brudi and Hustle Brudi are already taken.

But even with a court defeat, Haftsperre can continue to make money from tobacco. Because with other terms he made known, he was faster. He timely registered the trademark rights for his tobacco varieties such as Chabos (apple/licorice), Babos (citrus/raspberry) and Azzlackz (fruit mix/lemon). The costs for the trial in Munich? Can probably handle the warrant. And it’s easy.

This article was first published on Zeit Online. Watson may have changed the headings and subheadings. Here’s the original.