{"id":324,"date":"2006-07-16T09:50:53","date_gmt":"2006-07-16T09:50:53","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-07-16T09:50:53","modified_gmt":"2006-07-16T09:50:53","slug":"a-whopping-folly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=324","title":{"rendered":"A Whopping Folly?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BurgerBurger King\u2122 sell a fairly ordinary burger called a “Whopper”; I doubt there is a law student in the UK who doesn’t know that. However, I doubt that many UK law students know that there is a large oatmeal flapjack also called a “Whopper\u2122 “. Confusion is not on the menu, yet Burger King has threatened legal action against the Welsh flapjack maker. A similar battle of David and Goliath has been arraigned between a small greengrocer in Bournemouth and the famous Covent Garden\u2122 market, because the tiddler in Bournemouth has used the same name for his\/ her local shop, which sells the same produce. The big boys will win.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Burger King\u2122 sell a fairly ordinary burger called a “Whopper”; I doubt there is a law student in the UK who doesn’t know that. However, I doubt that many UK law students know that there is a large oatmeal flapjack also called a “Whopper\u2122 “. Confusion is not on the menu, yet Burger King has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}