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[–] Canadian_Cabinet@lemmy.ca 52 points 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 6 points 11 months ago

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

[–] RojoSanIchiban@lemmy.world 41 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Clearly he should rename threads to Z.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 22 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] WolfhoundRO@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

Because F him, that's Y

[–] aquasteel@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 11 months ago
[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 37 points 11 months ago

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

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 35 points 11 months ago

You love to see it. Get fucked Zucky!

[–] kglitch@kglitch.social 12 points 11 months 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 11 months ago

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

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[–] netchami@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago

Facebook and the Zuck commonly taking an L

[–] Veraxus@kbin.social 5 points 11 months ago

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

[–] FriendBesto@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months 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 11 months ago

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