Nestle Petitions To Cancel ‘Seattle Strong’ Coffee Trademark, Arguing It Owns Seattle
Nestle Petitions To Cancel ‘Seattle Strong’ Coffee Trademark, Arguing It Owns Seattle
Nestle certainly hasn’t been shy about engaging in aggressive trademark enforcement in the past, but this one is something different. We’ve already covered several stories in which a pe…
Nestle is that one mega corp I make sure I never buy.
Here's the list if anyone needs a refresher.
Buying local and small businesses are the best way to make sure you don't fund scummy mega corps!
All Nestle has to do is buy a bunch of $TRUMP, And not only will they win this trademark case by Executive Order, but the Federal Government will literally sell Seattle to Nestle....
Agreed. Also, I just wanted to point out that the way your comment is phrased makes it uncertain whether it's the name "Seattle" that Trump would sell to Nestlé or the actual city itself, including its, people, land, government and infrastructure. To clarify, I believe it would be both of those things.
Nestle can go fuck itself with a rusty rake.
Nestlé purchased Seattle’s Best Coffee from Starbucks in 2022 and this April, filed a petition to cancel the Seattle Strong trademark name, claiming it is too similar to Seattle’s Best Coffee
OK, fuck Nestlé, but I expected this to be worse. Seattle's Best Coffee could reasonably be confused with Seattle Strong coffee by an uninformed consumer. This is one of the few Nestlé cases where it can be said to be reasonable. It pains me to say that.
Just like they own water? Fuckers.
I was just thinking I haven't heard of anything atrocious from Nestle in a few months. I'm glad they're still out there proving they're shit bags.
There are surely more than 2 coffee places in Seattle with 'Seattle' in the name.
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Sue them repeatedly until their legal costs bury them
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Buy them out for a pittance.
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And Nestlé owns them all.
It owns all the other ones, too, because they dare to have "Seattle" in their addresses.
Bullshit like this should be handled with large fines for the offender (Nestle) and corporal punishment for their c-suite. <neoliberal-justification>This will create jobs by creating a whole new branch of law, “moronic IP claims law.”</neoliberal-justification>
Swiss neutrality at its finest
Switzerland took it's all the expansionism it had in it and just gave it to Nestle.
Anybody else remember the Pequod's vs QueeQueg's coffee plotline in Deus Ex Invisible War, the sort of bastard step child sequel?
I remember originally thinking it was way, way too on the nose, so as to be just actually goofy writing.
Welp, I used to think the same about Idiocracy, and reality seems hell bent on lowering its writing standards.
Christ.
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Seattle's Best Coffee, Seattle Strong Coffee, Seattle's Most Social Isolated Coffee...
All Goddamned Nestle!
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Weird fighting over shit. Seattle has fuck all to do with coffee. (If your claim to coffeedom is Starbucks, you're making my point for me.)
Nestle and America should not be fighting this in the courts. They should take it to the streets. Go to war over this. Corpo-fascists killing Fascist Corpos and the whole world wins.