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Even if McDonald's were being total dicks about Supermac's, the remedy shouldn't be for the Government to act like a petulant child.
by sjwright 8y ago
Even if McDonald's were being total dicks about Supermac's, the remedy shouldn't be for the Government to act like a petulant child.
- pergadad 8y agoIt's not the government. It's an independent agency that follows it's procedures correctly no matter whether it's a mom&pop shop or a global giant. McD caused the whole issue and then didn't bother submitting the right kind of evidence.
- sjwright 8y agoWhat was the right kind of evidence?
- josefx 8y agoSeems like they submittet proof that they used the trademark in marketing materials, but no independent proof that they actually managed to sell even a single BigMac commercially.
- sjwright 8y agoThey provided detailed sales numbers.
- vertex-four 8y agoThey provided the number “75” for each year with nothing to back it up.
- kabes 8y agoThe independent kind. Like said many times by others here, a news article fron those years would have sufficed.
- TheLuddite 8y agoYou do understand that the only reason why trademarks exist is the Government?
- sjwright 8y agoOf course, but they were made to exist under a set of rules and principles. That doesn't give the Government an excuse to act like a petulant child.
- yason 8y agoThe government didn't act like that, they followed their rules. From what I gather, they wanted independent evidence and McDonalds gave them brochures and data printed in-house. If "everyone knows McDonalds sells Big Macs" is a good argument then it shouldn't be hard to find evidence that it indeed is so. It wouldn't have been hard, McDonalds just didn't bother to provide that for some reason. If a small, young company would try to defend their trademark nobody would believe them even if they printed brochures, menus, and told "yes, we really really really do sell these". There's nothing of substance in such claims. Printing is cheap.
- FranzFerdiNaN 8y agoBecause McDonald’s should not have to follow the rules and deliver the right papers and evidence when requested to do so of course.
- pjc50 8y agoIt's not the government, it's a court.
- sjwright 8y agoIn most (all?) democracies a court of law is a branch of Government. In the USA the judiciary is described as being co-equal to the executive and legislative branches. It's largely the same in the European Union and Westminster-style governments.
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