Friday, February 11, 2011

Ford denounced the Ferrari F150 for the name

Ford denounced the Ferrari for using the name "F150" for his single-seater racing. The same acronym, interposed with a hyphen (F-150), has been used for years by the U.S. giant to indicate his pick-up, "the best-selling truck in America for 34 years." Specifically, Ford accuses Ferrari of violation of trademark, false designation and Internet piracy.

According to the fact the house blue oval has usurped the famous Ferrari brand inopportune initiatives to promote this in the F1 world. "F-150 is a stable and important brand for Ford, with a hard-won reputation and is now seriously threatened by the adoption of the name Scuderia F150 Maranello" "When Ferrari announced the name of his racing car, Ford asked to change it.

Ferrari did not respond to this request quickly enough, leaving no choice but to Ford to take legal action to protect this important brand. " Without going into the matter, we believe that the problem does not exist: not only belong to different worlds, indeed in different galaxies, we can not understand how a Formula 1 car is not on the market, can damage a work vehicle such as pick Ford-up.

Considering that the Formula 1 in the U.S. is not much followed. Lawyers will be happy ...

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