{"id":83737,"date":"2025-08-15T03:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T03:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/83737\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T03:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T03:02:09","slug":"podcast-host-ken-biberaj-calls-out-mattel-for-challenging-name-patent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/83737\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast Host Ken Biberaj Calls Out Mattel for Challenging Name Patent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                          Podcast Host Ken Biberaj<br \/>\n                          Mattel Is Overreaching in Fight Over My Name<br \/>\n                          &#8230; But, CEO Is Welcome for an Interview!!!<\/p>\n<p>\n                        Published August 14, 2025 2:47 PM PDT\n                                                                            <\/p>\n<p>            Play video content<\/p>\n<p>                    <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ccf8ba5d88d14710a6376746c9d327af_md.jpg\" alt=\"081425_ken_biberaj_kal\" width=\"728\" height=\"410\" class=\"img-fluid\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                    TMZ.com<\/p>\n<p>Ken Biberaj ain&#8217;t giving up his name for anyone &#8230; even toy giant Mattel, who he says is overextending its reach in order to monopolize the &#8220;Ken&#8221; moniker.<\/p>\n<p>We spoke with Biberaj &#8212; who hosts the <a href=\"https:\/\/coffeewithken.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Coffee with Ken&#8221;<\/a> podcast &#8212; on &#8220;TMZ Live,&#8221; and we asked him about his current beef with Mattel &#8230; which he says kicked off when he tried to patent the name of his show.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20250814_f6d7b504c3db453e9f8cf06a13c110d2\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:6a1a9e4c-a900-45ad-a5ba-168f6c02767f\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/f6d7b504c3db453e9f8cf06a13c110d2_md.jpg\" alt=\"ken barbie doll sub swipe getty\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Biberaj says they were preliminarily approved for the trademark &#8230; before Mattel came out of nowhere and objected to Ken and his team for registering the show because they believed anything &#8220;Ken&#8221; belongs to them. Of course, the most famous Ken in existence has to be the Ken doll &#8212; Barbie&#8217;s man, who was introduced by Mattel in 1961.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>KB is calling BS on the claim &#8230; pointing out hundreds of thousands of dudes in America &#8212; including himself, obviously &#8212; are named Ken. A company can&#8217;t stop these legions from using their own names, right???<\/p>\n<p>Biberaj jokes he&#8217;s got no plans to change his name &#8230; so, it won&#8217;t be &#8220;Coffee with Kenny&#8221; or &#8220;Beers with Biberaj&#8221; anytime soon!<\/p>\n<p>Ken runs us through his show, too &#8230; explaining it all came about because he wanted to sit down, have a coffee and have some really important conversations about weighty topics.<\/p>\n<p>This includes a convo with Mattel CEO Ynon Kreiz &#8230; who it appears now has a standing invite to come on the show whenever he wants!<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"media-link image-block__link js-track-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hulu.com\/series\/23adb4bd-b0fb-4697-900d-09ef393dc48e\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/6ec2f3bcae4444e287dca0db81485bfa_md.jpg\" alt=\"Huk Hogan-INLINE-HULU\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><br \/>\n                                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>It might be a tense convo &#8230; but, hey, at least there will be refreshments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Podcast Host Ken Biberaj Mattel Is Overreaching in Fight Over My Name &#8230; But, CEO Is Welcome for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88],"class_list":["post-83737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}