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[–] Canadian_Cabinet@lemmy.ca 52 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My favorite trademark story is how McDonald's lost the rights to the name Big Mac in Ireland due to an existing trademark

[–] Spacemanspliff@midwest.social 17 points 1 year ago

What's next about that is if they had activity bothered to treat the case seriously and bumbled their paperwork so hard the judge ruled against them.

[–] mitch8128@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This happened in Australia too, that's why we have hungry jacks and not burger king

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 6 points 1 year ago

And to Wendy's in Netherlands, which is why there's no Wendy's in the EU.

[–] RojoSanIchiban@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Clearly he should rename threads to Z.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] WolfhoundRO@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Because F him, that's Y

[–] aquasteel@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 year ago
[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 37 points 1 year ago

Let's just hope the judge is not an idiot.

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 35 points 1 year ago

You love to see it. Get fucked Zucky!

[–] kglitch@kglitch.social 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I can confirm that the 1984 Threads movie is pretty traumatizing. Not in a horror movie kind of way, in a "this is realistically what would happen in and after a nuclear war, which is the end of everything in the worst way you can imagine" kinda way.

It's on youtube.

[–] nick@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

100% horror, just… in a different kind of way.

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[–] netchami@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

Facebook and the Zuck commonly taking an L

[–] Veraxus@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

So, just like what happened with "Meta"...

[–] FriendBesto@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for sharing, I hope they stand their ground and will definitely will keep an eye on this one. LOL

[–] autumn_rain@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

The name and the logo remind me of the parasitic worm.