Monday, February 23, 2009

Starbucks sues to shutter Starcups café


Sweden - A Gothenburg-area café owner is confident he will prevail in a naming dispute with US coffee shop giant Starbucks. Arman Najafpour runs the Starcups café in Gothenburg’s Linnéstaden neighbourhood and can’t understand why the American coffee shop chain might have a problem with his café. “Starcups is a totally different thing,” he told the Göteborgs-Posten (GP) newspaper. “I’ve had the name registered here in Sweden and there are certain rules that apply. I’m never going to back down.” More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Handango