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…multistory food pavilion in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor by the name of Sony’s. IIRC, owned and operated by a petite Filipino lady. Her name was Sony. The Sony corporation sued her and won, and she could no longer use her own name for her own very small, single location business.
A doggy daycare where we live briefly went by the name Starbarks. I thought it was very clever. Same story - Starbucks sued and won.
Corporate wusses! Did the gigantic Sony corporation really feel threatened by a little food vending business, or gigantic Starbucks by a single doggy daycare location? If either of those small businesses had been offering the same products as the corporations, maybe I could see it, but c’mon, man. 
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