It's what happens why some buisness gets big using a "prefix"
Try starting a business starting with "easy" or a product with a lower case "i".
It wont be Branson himself sending out the letters but brand lawyers needing something to justify their wage.
They 'lympic having been at it too.
Wonder how long before this guy gets a letter
maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=NW10+0DG&hl=en&ll=51.562705,-0.258372&spn=0.009057,0.016243&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=8.817469,16.633301&t=h&hnear=London+NW10+0DG,+United+Kingdom&z=16&layer=c&cbll=51.562817,-0.258654&panoid=2huuk8YIIi9o4KnMAMTXkw&cbp=12,31.8,,1,3.52
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Tue 17 Jul 2012, 11:17,
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tell me about it.
we had a fight off a challenge from a brand lawyer for a giant telco trying to reserve the prefix oi + everything around their brand. we won, but if they'd taken us to court we coudnt have afforded the risk of losing
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 17 Jul 2012, 11:57,
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I assume that was either the Brazilian phone company or a right wing punk sub-culture.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Oi!_bands
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Tue 17 Jul 2012, 13:52,
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