McDonald's crushes McCurry | Metro.co.uk
McDonald's crushes McCurry
Friday, September 8, 2006
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Fast food giant McDonald's has won a huge and noble victory against a tiny Malaysian curry house, after a five year legal battle.
A judge ruled yesterday that the open-air restaurant called McCurry had to drop the letters 'Mc' from its name, as they were in breach of McDonald's trademark.
The Kuala Lumpur restaurant claimed that it stood for 'Malaysian Chicken Curry'.
The judge, Siti Mariah Ahmad, reportedly found that: 'The defendant's use of the word McCurry and employing signage featuring colours distinctive of the plaintiff's was indulging in acts that could rise to confusion and deception'.
The restaurant serves traditional Indian and Malaysian food. It doesn't serve hamburgers. The judge said that McDonalds had an exclusive right to the prefix 'Mc'.
The restaurant is to appeal the decision, pointing out that the prefix 'Mc' is widely used, for example in the names of Scottish people.