It is not often we hear about a star athlete embroiled in a legal dispute with his own mom, but that’s the case with Luka Doncic and his mother, Mirjam Poterbin.

Doncic confirmed to longtime NBA reporter Marc Stein that he filed a petition with the United States Patent and Trademark Office regarding cancelling the “LUKA DONCIC 7” trademark, which is controlled by his mother and which she has refused to give up.

“I have a lot to look forward to as I continue to grow as a player and a person and it’s important to me to control my own brand and focus on giving back to my communities,” Doncic told Stein, who publishes The Stein Line on Substack, in a statement.

Luka Doncic scores 47 points in a 40-minute @EuroBasket game to lead Slovenia past France and clinch first place in Group B … on the second night of a back-to-back and after filing a US Patent and Trademark Office challenge to secure control of a trademark held by his mother. https://t.co/wNR7FfQVne

— Marc Stein (@TheSteinLine) September 7, 2022

Doncic gave his mother permission to register his name as a trademark during his rookie year in 2018. According to Stein, the Mavericks star tried in writing last year to get his mother’s company to give up the trademark, but that did not happen.

source foxsports.com.au

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