Reminds me of an incident in the UK several years back. It involved an inn that had been run by the McDonald family for generations. Seems they were sued by an American company with the same name... On Sun, 11 May 2008 15:51:41 -0500, Sandy Olson wrote > Oh, what a litigious society we dwell in. We need people to mellow > out and eat more peppers....moderate ones, of course. > > Okay, can we use a picture of an eye, a picture of a chile pod, the > word 'therefore' another picture of an eye and then the word 'am'? > Would that still be infringement? > > Or off on another track altogether, back to "I Am Legion". > > SandyO > CH #1146 of the moderate and cautious persuasion when lawsuits hover -- =Mark http://www.exit109.com/~mstevens