SC - MacDonalds

[Michael F. Gunter]

> This is more or less, to my mind, the same situation as occurred about 18
> months (I think) ago, when a family in Scotland was barred from doing business
> under their own name, because a large fast-food chain had copyrighted it and
> registered the name as a trademark. Even close variations were disallowed as
> part of the trademark registration, and the large corporation sued them,
> forcing them to abandon their family name as their business name. The family
> had owned a small sandwich shop for about eighty years, under the same name.
> The name: MacDonald.
> 
> Adamantius

One good note on this is that I believe that MacDonalds, the conglomerate,
actually lost the case.

Or at least one can hope.

Yers,

Gunthar
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