Every time I visit a restaurant a typical scenario would be a waiter asking "and for you sir, what would you like to drink", 98.7% (don't know how i came to that specific figure) of the time my response is "A coca-cola with ice please". For what its worth I have an emergency stash of 3 bottles of coca-cola under my bed.
Whats the whole point of me telling you my obsession with coca-cola, you ask. Well today i feel like I have been stabbed in the back by them. I received a letter from coca-cola telling me they will oppose my trademark registration, basically saying they do not want me to trademark the word "FANTATOR", as it conflicts with "FANTA".
I did not even know Coca-cola owned fanta, i always saw fanta and pepsi as the sworn enemy and vowed never to have a drop unless i could help it. All this changes now, I am going to the dark side, thats right, Dr Pepper stock up, I am coming in.
Fantator (as in fan + commentator), how would anybody get it confused with Fanta, what if I called it fantastico, i need someone to school me on trademarks. Does this now mean Coca-cola are able to go after any trademark which has "F.A.N.T.A" as the first five letters.
On a final note I am seeking professional legal advice on this matter, if you are an intellectual property lawyer with trademark law expertise please contact me via email, peter@fantator.com. Thank you.
