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[vetran]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-pub-name.html

Vogue magazine threatens to sue a 200-year-old PUB in a tiny Cornish hamlet because they share the same name - claiming it could confuse readers

• Conde Nast sent a 'cease and desist' letter to family-run pub, Star Inn at Vogue
• Publicans Mark and Rachel Graham ordered to stop using homonymous name
• Mr Graham, 60, has refused, saying he couldn't believe the magazine's request

I know they have to protect their name but that is a little silly.

[SueEllen]

Oooo free advertising....for the pub!

Some large companies are silly e.g. https://www.manchestereveningnews.co...sbury-17622945

[d000hg]

Surely they should be suing the parish council over the name of the place? How ridiculous.

[vetran]

Oooo free advertising....for the pub!

Some large companies are silly e.g. https://www.manchestereveningnews.co...sbury-17622945

oh that definitely looks like 'passing off'

[SueEllen]

oh that definitely looks like 'passing off'

Yes because the local off-license and Sainsburys/Morrisons can easily be confused with each other.

I never knew that local off-licence existed until Sainsburys send the "cease and desist" letter and it was all over the media.

Likewise I didn't know the Star Inn at Vogue existed and there was a place called Vogue.....

[vetran]

Surely they should be suing the parish council over the name of the place? How ridiculous.

AIUI if they find an organisation with a similar name they have to challenge it. Now if they had written a nice letter saying that the Vogue part can't be used on its own for a business and definitely not in Publishing (what the law says) then set up an event there it would have been seen as a sensible reply to the situation.

[TheDude]

I hate it when boozers ponce themselves up like this.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

https://twitter.com/qikipedia/status/360134419396304897

[d000hg]

I hate it when boozers ponce themselves up like this.

http://starinnvogue.biz/

Nothing about the website, prices, meat draw or Judy's Karaoke sounds poncy to me.

[TheDude]

http://starinnvogue.biz/

Nothing about the website, prices, meat draw or Judy's Karaoke sounds poncy to me.

Agreed - The website looks like it was optimised for Netscape Navigator.

I retract my poorly researched off the cuff remarks.