I have to say that I'm on Amazon's side here. Having your product name misunderstood as being merely an adjective is the price you pay for using an adjective as your product name. Naming your products after someone, on the other hand, is pure harassment.
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[ 5.0 ms ] story [ 13.4 ms ] threada) Cloned products of a smaller retailer, and then
b) Cloned the style and branding of the packaging too, and then
c) Used a registered trademark all over the product descriptions for those cloned products, and then
d) Spent who-knows-how-many hundreds of thousands of pounds claiming that it has done nothing wrong, and then
e) Lost that argument comprehensively in the High Court in London.
I think that Christopher North could end the cause of his epic whining here by growing the hell up and dropping the matter. He lost. Move on.
b) Cloned the style and branding of the packaging too, and then
c) Used a registered trademark all over the product descriptions for those cloned products
Wait, what? The court case I read about involved third parties listing products in Amazon's catalogue. Amazon didn't create any products at all.