Gates sues Caribbean hotel promoter

[bonkers325]

I think Bill needs to open his own law office right there on the MS campus.

Bill Gates has got the full weight of the law onto a Caribbean businessman who registered the software chief's name as a trademark.

Eric Vigneron, a hotel promoter on the French island of Martinique, trademarked "Bill Gates" with France's Intellectual Property Institute back in January 1998. His reasoning was that the trademark was made up of two generic words: "Bill" - received for monies owing, and "Gates" - entrances or doors.

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[Poontos]

Snah.

 

[DABANSHEE]

So every time he opens up the gate in front of the hotel for someone he gives them a 'bill degates' (in English it would be 'gates bill', the French always reverse the word order)