December 28, 2020

Andrew Campbell 

The lawyers for the Girl Scouts of the United States of America (GSUSA) filed papers in Manhattan Federal Court on December 24 to deny an attempt by the Boy Scouts of America in November to reject claims that the organization cannot use "scouts" and "scouting" in its recruitment of girls without infringing trademarks.

In November of 2018, the Girl Scouts, founded in 1912, filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against the Boy Scouts in Manhattan Federal Court. The lawsuit is an attempt by the Girl Scouts to accuse the recruitment tactics by the Boy Scouts admitting girls 11 to 17 years old from May of 2018, which has been uniquely damaging for the Girl Scouts. Earlier in October 2017, the Boy Scouts also decided to let girls 7 to 10 years old enroll in the Cub Scouts.

It is noteworthy that girls have been featured prominently in recent ad campaigns from the Boy Scouts. The Girl Scouts claim there are proven rampant instances of confusion and mistaken cases associated with the misleading girl recruitment program in the Boy Scouts. However, the Boy Scouts argue that more than 120,000 girls and young women have become members of Cub Scouts or Scouts BSA since they started recruiting girls.

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