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On Fri, 2 Aug 2013, Brad Rogers wrote:
You'd think, but in at least one case, you'd be wrong. The UK branch of the World Wildlife Fund took exception to the World Wrestling Federation. The Wrestling Federation were persuaded to change their name to WWE, where E stands for Entertainment. See WWE's own web site for more details; http://corporate.wwe.com/news/2002/2002_05_06.jsp
Thanks - that's interesting. It seems that if you can argue that the fact that some organisation uses your name damages your reputation you may have a case.
But it still doesn't mean that you can simply register a name as a trademark and then get others to pay or change their name.
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