McDonald’s Lost Its EU trademark and BK is “Lovin’ It”
Business Wars Daily
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🗓️ 12 February 2019
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Today is Tuesday, February 12, and we’re looking at Burger King vs. McDonald’s.
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| 1:10.0 | Sometimes you just know when a marketing team is having fun. |
| 1:13.8 | And in the case of Burger King, they've seemed downright gleeful this year as they turn out |
| 1:18.6 | campaign after campaign trolling McDonald's. |
| 1:21.4 | But BK's latest opportunity to poke fun at their rival fell in their laps last month when |
| 1:27.3 | McDonald's lost the European |
| 1:29.1 | trademark on their signature sandwich, the Big Mac. This after a legal battle with an Irish |
| 1:35.0 | restaurant chain called, get this, Supermax. Now, use of the term Big Mac is officially on the |
| 1:42.7 | table for every business in the EU, including Burger King. |
| 1:48.9 | And use it they have. In a campaign that took trolling to new heights, Burger King Sweden rolled out a new |
| 1:56.1 | menu featuring classic BK sandwiches with snarky new names. |
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