McCurry beats McDonalds in a spicy Trademark Battle

Tuesday, September 08, 2009

This long-running curry war has all the perfect ingredients for a business lesson. Global giant McDonalds has just lost an eight-year legal battle against a fast food outlet in Malaysia which it claimed was infringing its iconic trademark.  Now McCurry is free to pursue its ambitious growth strategy without fear for further legal action from the burger kings.

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Patent Theft threatens enterprising inventors

Thursday, September 03, 2009

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An item covered by BBC news on TV and radio yesterday morning may be useful when covering protections of ideas and inventions for start-up businesses and entrepreneurs. Trevor Baylis, who invented the wind-up radio among other things and often features as a classic entrepreneur-inventor in business text books, is calling for Government action to help British inventors defend their ideas from rivals who try to steal them. 

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