Chubby Checker settles Hewlett-Packard penis-measurement app name lawsuit

MUSIC icon Chubby Checker has reportedly settled a trademark infringement lawsuit over a naughty penis measurement app named after him.

Singer Chubby Checker in Sydney 12 Oct 1994. p/

A MUSIC icon has reportedly settled a trademark infringement lawsuit over a naughty penis measurement app named after him.

Chubby Checker, now 72 — real name Ernest Evans — brought the suit against the multinational computer company Hewlett Packard in the US in 2013 over an app it was selling jokingly titled “The Chubby Checker”.

The app asked for a man’s shoe size as a reference before providing said man with an estimate of the size of his genitals. A claim by Checker that HP also violated the Communications Decency Act was reportedly dismissed by a federal judge in August last year, but the trademark claim was allowed to proceed and had been due to go to trial in October.

Terms of the settlement have not been disclosed and neither side admits any liability, the Hollywood Reporter stated.

But HP has reportedly agreed not to use the singer’s stage name, related trademarks or likeness on their products.

Chubby checker ... Performing in an Adelaide Rams guernsey at Adelaide Oval.

In his heyday in 9162 ... Let’s Twist singer Chubby Checker.

The app’s success — or lack of — proved size doesn’t matter as much as HP may have presumed.

Between 2006 and 2012, when a cease and desist demand from Checker’s lawyers prompted the company to withdraw it, the $US0.99 ($A1.07) application was downloaded fewer than 100 times, giving the company a total profit of about $US30 ($A32.46).