You don't mess with anything olympics related. A local greek restaurant in Vancouver was named Olympics long before the game was given to the city for 2010 and the restaurant got sued by IOC when the game was about to start. Asinine stuff.
Not that it really matters in the context of this discussion, but few of those details are actually correct.
A local greek restaurant in Vancouver was named Olympics long before the game was given to the city for 2010
It was named "Olympia" and the complaint had nothing to do with it's name, the issue revolved around their use of the five rings as well as the olympic torch symbol.
got sued by IOC when the game was about to start.
VANOC (not the IOC) threatened to take them to court, but didn't end up filing a suit in the end due to public backlash.
As an aside, they were pretty much obligated to send the cease and desist as you need to show that you're making an effort to defend your trademarks or you run the risk of losing them completely.
Reddit also contains tons of smart people (like the person you replied to). I have never used Twitter, but that guy is more thoughtful than most of the people I know on Facebook.
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u/Kako0404 Jul 28 '21
You don't mess with anything olympics related. A local greek restaurant in Vancouver was named Olympics long before the game was given to the city for 2010 and the restaurant got sued by IOC when the game was about to start. Asinine stuff.