{"id":1358,"date":"2010-01-21T19:44:21","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T19:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dailyfork.com\/mcdonalds_needs_to_mcpick_thei\/"},"modified":"2021-04-22T19:48:50","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T19:48:50","slug":"mcdonalds_needs_to_mcpick_thei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyfork.com\/new\/mcdonalds_needs_to_mcpick_thei\/","title":{"rendered":"Mcdonalds needs to mcpick thei"},"content":{"rendered":"

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​<\/span>As reported by the Consumerist<\/a><\/em>, McDonald’s is suing a 19-year-old girl with the last name McClusky for having the audacity to start a charity campaign to raise money for the Chicago Chapter of the Special Olympics<\/a>…and calling her event McFest. Since, apparently anything with the “Mc” prefix is one-hundred percent McDonald’s intellectual property, McDonald’s says they are legally obligated to “guard against third parties that infringe our trademarks.”<\/p>\n

It would be one thing if this was a case of a business trying to profit from McDonald’s well-established brand, but suing someone who hosted a charity event in support of a charity McDonald’s also sponsors seems like kind of a dick move. Obviously, I’m no lawyer, but it seems like McDonald’s could do a better job picking their battles when it comes to the use of their sacred prefix. <\/p>\n

What say you? Should McFest be burned to the ground by the McDonald’s legal team?<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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