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Post by russm on Oct 28, 2012 16:18:43 GMT -5
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.
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Post by Doo on Oct 28, 2012 18:22:27 GMT -5
Cool, thanks for posting!
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Post by ahkyahnan on Nov 1, 2012 11:44:30 GMT -5
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
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Post by ScoobyAddict on Nov 2, 2012 8:54:11 GMT -5
Thanks for posting Russm.
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