Fred Bauder wrote:
Somewhat, depending on the aggressiveness of the trademark holder. I think I heard that even The MacDonald, (the Lord of the Isles) had trouble with MacDonald's which is absolutely ridiculous. Probably it is a non-issue as it will fall below their radar.
Some of these complaints can get fairly silly. There has been a case in the news recently here in British Columbia. A couple of guys (i.e. "bucks") from the Haida first nation started up a local café which they called "Haida-bucks" in their remote community in the Queen Charlotte Islands. When a certain well-known Seattle based coffee merchant caught wind of this they began an action for trademark violation against these guys. It's much too early to know where this is going legally, but when the news became public the guys started to receive money in the mail from complete strangers to fund their legal defence.
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