Non-KFC “Family Feast” still OK

U.K.: Fast-food giant Kentucky Fried Chicken has backed off its attempt to browbeat the proprietress of the Tan Hill Inn in North Yorkshire into no longer billing her traditional Christmas dinner as a “Family Feast”. In a letter from its lawyers, Freshfields, KFC had claimed trademark ownership of the phrase. (Will Pavia, “Fast food giant […]

U.K.: Fast-food giant Kentucky Fried Chicken has backed off its attempt to browbeat the proprietress of the Tan Hill Inn in North Yorkshire into no longer billing her traditional Christmas dinner as a “Family Feast”. In a letter from its lawyers, Freshfields, KFC had claimed trademark ownership of the phrase. (Will Pavia, “Fast food giant is licked in battle with pub”, Times Online, May 11; Weigel, Reason “Hit and Run”, May 10).

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