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• Position: MALAYSIA - Brief article

America's fastfood giant doesn't have a monopoly on the prefix "Mc"--at [east not in the Southeast Asian nation of Malaysia, according to The Wall Street Journal. After an eight-year battle that ended in Malaysia's highest court, McDonald's Lost its bid to keep a family-owned restaurant in Kuala Lumpur, the capital., from calling itself McCurry. McDonald's has about 32,000 restaurants worldwide, including 185 in Malaysia. (The court's decision applies only in Malaysia.) Most companies have a "zero tolerance" policy against trademark infringement: They worry that...