Big Green’s Ethiopian trademark problem

By Ron Coleman Mar 10, 2007 #Brand Management and Branding, #Coffee, #Politics, #Starbucks

The Australian reports that earlier news about a resolution of Starbucks’ trademark problems with the Ethiopian coffee thing was perhaps over-caffeinated.

UPDATE: Have things perked up since then? Or simmered down? I simply don’t have grounds to say. But from the looks of it, these guys do.

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LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION » Blog Archive » Coca-Cola, Bolivia and all that says:

March 19, 2007 at 8:53 pm

[…] William Lozito notes the unmistakable parallel with the Ethiopian coffee trademark problem brewing with Starbucks. […]
LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION® » Blog Archive » Another black eye for Starbucks says:

September 24, 2008 at 7:01 pm

[…] respect in Korea… embarrassed in Africa… cross-branding eye-crossing in Manhattan… compromising in Arabia… and now […]

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