The Difference Between ‘Eat More Kale’ and ‘Eat Mor Chikin’

Chick-fil-A has been harassing a T-shirt maker in Vermont, claiming his slogan is too close to theirs.

See also this earlier story.

He’s making a documentary about his legal squabble with the chicken chain; here’s the trailer:

This sort of thing always irritates me, how businesses think that (a) they own a certain combination of certain words, and (b) that little businesses in out-of-the-way places are some sort of threat to their brand, esp. when the products the two different businesses promote are so entirely different, as to cause no confusion in the minds of anyone…

I hope he wins his case.

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