• Canadian_Cabinet
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    658 months ago

    My favorite trademark story is how McDonald’s lost the rights to the name Big Mac in Ireland due to an existing trademark

    • @Spacemanspliff@midwest.social
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      198 months ago

      What’s next about that is if they had activity bothered to treat the case seriously and bumbled their paperwork so hard the judge ruled against them.

      • lemmyvore
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        88 months ago

        And to Wendy’s in Netherlands, which is why there’s no Wendy’s in the EU.

    • @Mr_Blott@lemmy.world
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      88 months ago

      Not just Ireland, southern Ireland is EU so they lost it in the whole of Europe

      The BK near me was offering King Macs for a while just to take the piss

      • @Squizzy@lemmy.world
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        48 months ago

        Southern Ireland isn’t a thing. Ireland makes up about 80% of the island of Ireland and Northern Ireland is what remains. But you’re correct, they challenged our local Ray Kroc and lost.