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Not familiar with the Costa Rican legal system, but in US law you can lose your trademark if you don't actively protect it from infringement. They are legally obligated to be litigious.



This is often parroted and almost never true. US courts will not kill one of the biggest and most well-recognized companies in the world because of one tiny corner supermarket.


In any way, Nintendo suing a supermarket due to trademark violations is nonsense.

What are they claiming? That people will confuse it with a gaming console?




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