By Jaquetta White, The Times-Picayune

March 24, 2010, 9:23AM

Who Dat? Inc., the company that made a 1983 recording featuring the “Who Dat” chant associated with the New Orleans Saints football team, has filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against the Saints organization, the National Football League, the State of Louisiana and the Secretary of State. The suit claims that those parties have either directly or indirectly violated the company’s trademark.

The suit, filed in federal district court in Baton Rouge, says NFL Properties, LLC, New Orleans Saints LLC, the secretary of state of Louisiana and the state of Louisiana, “conspired to defraud” by interfering “with its prospective and other business relationships by engaging in a coordinated public effort to disseminate false information about Who Dat?, Inc. for the purpose of driving Who Dat?, Inc. out of business or making it impossible for Who Dat?, Inc. to continue to commercially use the ‘WHO DAT’ marks.”

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