Mc'Donalds loses a court battle in Malaysia

Estonia
September 9, 2009 4:11am CST
Finally the fast food giant got a lesson. McDonald has been in court with the Malaysian McCurry, fighting over the copyright infringement. I do not understand why these guys are so skeptical about other organizations around the world using the 'Mc' prefix. This particle is not untypical to the English language, so I do not believe that McDonalds is the only trademark in the world authorized to use it. Honestly, I think this copyright protection issue has gone way too far in the USA, so this example with McDonalds losing a case is quite fair, IMHO.
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inedible
@inedible (768)
• Singapore
9 Sep 09
To be fair, Malaysia is nowhere near Scotland/Ireland, which is where the "Mc" prefix in names originates. So unless they sell Scottish/Irish curry, or the owner of the store is Scottish/Irish, they probably were trying to rip off McDonald's name.
Vintervarg
@Vintervarg (697)
• Estonia
9 Sep 09
Actually they won the case by convincing the jury that Mc in their case is a different kind of prefix, which stands for Malaysian Chicken
inedible
@inedible (768)
• Singapore
9 Sep 09
Eheheheh. I think that's a lie, since if it was supposed to be an abbreviation, both the letters would be capitalised. But, hell, I don't care. I'm just happy that a huge corporation lost a lawsuit like that. :D
rosdimy
@rosdimy (3926)
• Malaysia
9 Sep 09
So far there is only one McCurry outlet. The owner is of Indian descent. The use of the small 'c' is based on aesthetics. The combined letters 'McCurry' ;ppks better than 'MCCurry'. There are people who want to own everything. McDonald should have realised that people can differentiate between the two names, and serve different types of food. Maybe someone in McDonald Malaysia is kicking his/her own backside, for not coming up with the name. Imagine the new range of food that cater for local taste. By the way the Malaysian bagpipes team (army) had several times in the past shown that they were, I do not know about now, on par with Scottish bagpipes players.