This is some funny stuff!
On Saturday 18 August 2007 9:51 am, Alex Dean wrote:
> eculbert wrote:
> > Names!!! I remember McDonald's trying (don't remember
> > the outcome nor the year) suing a McDonalds pub in
> > Great Britian. I think it was ireland that was over or
> > nearly 150 years old over the McDonald's name! Now
> > WHEN has the USA mcd served hard stuff and steak's???
> > NEVER has and never will.
> >
> > So names to corp's are worth fighting over!! Even when
> > The 'injured' is the new comer on the block!!
> >
> > I wouldn't be surprised to hear of some new HOTEL
> > company suing to stop everyone else from calling
> > themselves a hotel!!! Not in the least!!
>
> Budweiser sued a brewery in the Czech Republic in the town of Budwiez
> (I'm sure I have the spelling wrong). They'd been brewing been for
> something like 500 years, but the St. Louis based Budweiser said they
> were encroaching on their copyright. Sheesh.
>
> The McDonald's thing may have happened more than once. Came up when I
> lived in Aberdeen, Scotland. A lady called Flora McDonald ran a layby
> (like a truckstop) somewhere around Dundee called McDonalds. The
> hamburger chain sued her for using her own name, and there was a big
> to-do about arrogant American companies. I heard about it from all my
> Scottish friends.
>
> Ah, corporate hubris...
>
> alex
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