Warner Bros sues Scooby Snax Essex chip shop over

[russm]

Digital Spy reports "A village fish and chip shop has been forced to change its name after it was threatened with a high-profile lawsuit.

Warner Bros reportedly threatened to sue the owners of Essex restaurant Scooby Snax for its use of the food of choice of cartoon character Scooby Doo without permission..."

Note the name of the website is Digital Spy but it is being mangled in the HTML.

[Doo]

Cool, thanks for posting!

[ahkyahnan]

It's sad they have to do things like that, but as I understand it Trademark law actually requires companies to proactively protect their trademarks, regardless of the 'infringers' size. If they don't then other entities can use their lack of enforcement as legal precedent that the trademark has slipped into the public domain.

Although I think a Cease & Desist letter would be more appropriate than suing outright.

Mark

[ScoobyAddict]

Thanks for posting Russm.