Posted on 07/20/2013 12:00:19 PM PDT by rickmichaels
A Toronto businessman has been ordered to pay the legal fees incurred by McDonald’s Corp. during his six-year legal battle to win the rights to use the prefix ‘Mac’ to market a potential dim sum business.
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Ha!!!!!
:)
He’ll always be the dad from Good Times to me though.
I saw an episode of Bizarre Foods about an Asian countries FISH SAUCE... stuck in jars outside for months or years... it was gross.
then there was stnky tofu...
100 year old egg (not really that old)
In Korea they love old.... i mean aged... i mean fermented kimchi..... they eat a soup from loaches.... and bugs or something called pupa’s
I laugh every time I think of those names, they are great.
The rule of law is somewhat different in Russia, versus Canada.
Years ago I used to go to a vegetarian fast food place called “McDharma’s”.
They got sued by McDonald’s and had to change the name to “Dharma’s”.
So McDonalnd’s “owns” the letters “Mc”. And as though the vegetarian place was taking customers away from the cow burgers, that people were mistaking one for the other!
Stupid.
I hope the Irish sue McDonald’s.
BTW, There used to be a cafe in town named McDuck (with a picture of Scrooge McDuck), but it want out of business... There is a new cafe name Krab Burgers (with pictures of Sponge Bob).
I know a guy who stepped in a pot of winter kimchi during a patrol. Pretty potent stuff.
Okay, your consistent! I’m good with that.
I’m not trying to pick a fight with you, honest: but do you feel like suing an Indonesian company in Russian court, or vice versa?
And Polo the magazine, lost out to Ralph Lauren even though the mag had been around for many many years before.
At one time I wanted to start a car rental company called:
“Al and Moe’s”
And back in the early 1990’s when construction was booming, I wanted to buy a fleet of used armored cars and provide mobile check cashing.
I was going to call it:
“Da Money Truck”
some folks thought that was racist.
It would seem so.
I think "Mac" entered the jargon many years ago. Is there a difference in "Mac" and "Mc" in a name?
I recall a "Frazer" episode in which his brother is chastising him for the "McSessions" he provides over the phone. Were the writers sued I wonder
He should have called it “ Mack’s Dim Sum”.
"MacWong's".
My coworkers and I wondered how they could get away with it, but figured MickeyD's didn't want to play the big bully in front of a jury.
Granted, this was in the US not the Great White North...
Four piece dumplings, bbq pork in pita bread, etc.
Technically, there’s no difference; the shorter is merely an abbreviation of the longer—an actual Gaelic word, “mac”, which is always written longhand in the Gaelic languages (Scots Gaelic, Manx and Irish).
I can see McDonald’s getting litigious over a current-use actual trademarked name, but the Gaelic word for “son” as an all-encompassing trademark does not sound like the company’s domain.
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