HW: Brock's Destruction of Hawkwind Reputation

[Doug Pearson]

On Mon, 12 Aug 2002 13:19:58 +0100, M Holmes <fofp at HOLYROOD.ED.AC.UK> wrote:
>There are already legal precedents in such brand wars. Slight variations
>on spelling have been ruled as brand-stealing.

I don't know about single-letter variations, as in this particular case,
but there are numerous instances, at least in the USA, where two-letter
variations of a band name were sufficient to be ruled as not "brand-
stealing".  Two examples would be "yazOO" and "mission UK".

    -Doug
     jasret at mindspring.com