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nicklebro posted...

WaterLink posted...

I mean, I dont. You got me on that later half of your post. But if there are other businesses with that name then why didnt they have the right to it beforehand? And if that's the case, then shouldnt they be able to settle it in court? I'm still failing to find the issue here. If it's as cut and dry as you make it out to be then their copyright should get shut down. If not then one of these other businesses should have filed for that right long ago. You said it was decades right? *shrug*

They didn't have a right to it because no one in Hawaii laid claim to something as culturally significant as Aloha poke. Its so ubiquitous throughout the culture that whomever tried to stop anyone else from using it would be ostracized as a pariah, much like is happening to this jerk off from Chicago. There are dozens and dozens of companies that use those words or something similar in their name and they've all coexisted peacefully because they're all actually part of the Hawaiian culture, it took an outsider doing some douche baggery to cause this drama.

There are many japanese restaurants around here called "Hello Sushi" and "Hello Tokyo", stuff like that. Kinda the same thing. If this dude's being a dick about naming rights, then your people had, and I quote from you, DECADES, to lock this down. They didnt, from what you're telling me. So he did.
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