Jury award will cheer up Grumpy Cat's owner

﻿Grumpy Cat poses in 2016 for photos with her owner, Tabatha Bundesen, who this week won a lawsuit over the use of her identity. ﻿ ﻿Grumpy Cat poses in 2016 for photos with her owner, Tabatha Bundesen, who this week won a lawsuit over the use of her identity. ﻿ Photo: Richard Drew, STF Photo: Richard Drew, STF Image 1 of / 1 Caption Close Jury award will cheer up Grumpy Cat's owner 1 / 1 Back to Gallery

SANTA ANA, Calif. - It still won't make her smile, but Grumpy Cat has won some scratch.

A California jury gave the furry frown queen more than $700,000 this week in a federal lawsuit over the use of her identity.

According to documents obtained by the Washington Post, owner Tabatha Bundesen of Morristown, Ariz., won the lawsuit first filed three years ago against the Grenade beverage company.

She signed on for the cat to endorse a "Grumpy Cat Grumpuccino," but the company subsequently used the cat's image to help sell other products, which an eight-person jury on Monday found was unauthorized.

Grumpy Cat, whose dwarfism and underbite give her the permanent frown she's famous for, became an online phenomenon-turned-merchandising-machine after Bundesen first posted pictures of her in 2012.