MacDonalds.

kneemos

If my name was MacDonald and I opened a fast food "restaurant"could I put my name over the door in big garish lettering?

Icaras

Yes, as long as it doesnt infringe on someones copyright.

SEPT 23 1989

Ronald would come down and rearrange your restaurant and face

kowloon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfE98T10hu0

Uncle Ruckus

Nope.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonald's_legal_cases#Norman_McDonald.27s_Country_Drive-Inn_.28US.29

My name is URL

Uncle Ruckus wrote: »

Nope.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonald's_legal_cases#Norman_McDonald.27s_Country_Drive-Inn_.28US.29

McDonald's filed a lawsuit against MacDonald's Family Restaurant, located in Grand Cayman. McDonald's lost the case, and in addition, was banned from ever opening a McDonald's location on Grand Cayman. This ruling still stands today.

lol

Yellowblackbird

My names Tony Microsoft irl. Some as$holes made a real big thing of it, and court shut down my new software business a few years ago.

Kevin McCloud

Do the facebook on it and have the sign in irish :pac:

Cee-Jay-Cee

Yellowblackbird wrote: »

My names Tony Microsoft irl. Some as$holes made a real big thing of it, and court shut down my new software business a few years ago.

Oooih hate when that happens.



- Chris Ebay.

Tazio

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

Oooih hate when that happens.



- Chris Ebay.

Don't get me started.. I worked in a library for over 20 years indexing all the texts and books in an easy to find set of search cards..... I thought it would be fun to setup a site instead.... It got shut...

Cheers
Larry Lycos.

Billy86

Not quite the same but all Burger Kings in Australia are called Hungry Jacks because some fella had a "Burger King" takeaway before they branched out over there, and point blank refused to sell the rights for any amount of money. On one hand you have to think fair play to him for sticking to his principles, on the other you have to think his whole family are counting down the days until he dies. :pac:

Of course Hungry Jacks is so big over there as a brand now they probably wouldn't (and have rejected) adopting the BK brand name if the opportunity were to arise.

evolving_doors

How about Macdonald's ?

BetterThanThou

I believe it would depend on a few different situations. If you simply opened a place called "MacDonald's" and ripped off the style of a real McDonalds and served similar foods, they'd most likely win, if they took out a lawsuit. If you opened "MacDonald's Burger Place" and the exterior and interior was clearly not a rip off of McDonalds, then I couldn't see them beating you in a lawsuit.

COYVB

Yellowblackbird wrote: »

My names Tony Microsoft irl. Some as$holes made a real big thing of it, and court shut down my new software business a few years ago.

Google Mike Rowe Soft

riffmongous

Maccy D's could work

purplepanda

There was a kebab shop in North London a few years back. large red & yellow sign with a large yellow "M" imitating the McDonald's logo & style, called McDoner's.

Signs were removed & replaced after a few months but I'm not sure if there was legal moves by McD's

Seems that someone got a picture :pac:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/_alef_/335122814/

Poochie05

Or you could do the opposite and call your place whatever you like but have some Ronald McDonalds endorse it!

http://www.adweek.com/news/advertising-branding/ad-day-taco-bell-recruits-real-ronald-mcdonalds-launch-its-new-breakfast-156571

MistyCheese

I like the idea of consolidating a few of the big fast food outlets into one great big global conglomerate.

With that in mind I hereby present to you: SuperBurgerFriedDonaldsHut.

Volvoair

kneemos wrote: »

If my name was MacDonald and I opened a fast food "restaurant"could I put my name over the door in big garish lettering?

no.

I seem to remember McD's one going after a family run chipper in Glasgow, but backed down when it was pointed out that the chipper had been running for many years before McD' arrived in the UK.

zAbbo

Yellowblackbird wrote: »

My names Tony Microsoft irl. Some as$holes made a real big thing of it, and court shut down my new software business a few years ago.

Uhh, at least get the story right. You mean Mike Rowe's software website MikeRoweSoft.com. Tony Microsoft is just plain silly.

shruikan2553

MistyCheese wrote: »

I like the idea of consolidating a few of the big fast food outlets into one great big global conglomerate.

With that in mind I hereby present to you: SuperBurgerFriedDonaldsHut.

Taco Bell is working on it.

DakarVert

There's a McDonals in Buttevant in Cork.

gotthebug

DakarVert wrote: »

There's a McDonals in Buttevant in Cork.

Just about to post that the fella who owned it first name was donal.so it was diff a rip off

jacksie66

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KungPao

I love places that are 'influenced' by popular names like:

Chicken Hut - Saw this near a hotel in Laois...or was it Pizza Shack!?
King Burger - Was on O'Connell Street in the '90s.
Texas Fried Chicken in Crumlin.

Molester Stallone II

Better not try to fck with McDonalds, else they'll be coming atcha with some Big Paybacc ...