My Guess Is Mr. McDonald won’t be able to sue for that, only to earn protection from being sued himself.
Anheiser-Busch recently lost a ruling in eastern Europe against a Small local brewery who’s name stemmed from their locastion the “Buds” provence. The Product in name was phonetically similar to “Budweiser” The Court (not in the US) ruled against A-B because the product name “Budweiser” is a phrase in the local language, it’s only a tradename in America because it’s a foreign word.
huh? Is this a question?
I will bet a nickel that you meant to post this in the Gecko Insurance and Iowa Sound thread and hit Post New Thread instead of Post Reply.
Actually, Budweiser was first a famous brew in Europe (I believe it was Czechoslovakia at the time) and A-Busch bragged they had a comperable recipe. Sort of like saying “American Pilsner” (not actually from Pilsen)or “California Champagne” (not actually from France).
There were some legal wrangles. But since beer was not very portable in the 1800’s, before it was pasteurized or filtered, and when it had to be shipped by boat. So they just settled on a mutual agreement not to market on each other’s side of the ocean.
Bayer US did a similar thing with the originator of aspirin, another Bayer.