No, I am not talking about bananas nor mangoes. Not even traffic lights, this is about pizza!
Yellow Cab, one of my fave pizza place sued local Green Cab thru Intellectual Property Office ,of infringement and copying their trademark . The complaint was brought about by numerous calls received by Yellow Cab asking if they are somehow affiliated with Green Cab.
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Whenever we crave for pizza and the budget is tight, we go for Green Cab. The first time i knew about the place was 2004 when I was in Valley 1, Pque. A college classmate bought us one while we were working on a school poject. It was okay, only it is not comparable to Yellow Cab of course. But i told myself if there will be a branch near us, I will go for it because the price is reasonable and it also tastes like pizza., not a Yellow Cab pizza though. But it doesn’t matter, sometimes I am after the price.
Then sometime in 2006, I was given a Green Cab flyer. When I got home, and saw the picture of the pizza I tried the number. Somebody answered, “Police Station”. I hung up and dialed again. Same answer. I looked at the number and see if I had made a mistake. The number was correct so I tried again. Same answer. So I asked, “Is this Green Cab?” She answered, “Sorry ma’am, may nanloloko po kasi!”. I was irritated. I said, “Is that the way you answer the phone. That’s a business phone in a business place. Wala ba kayong caller ID?”. She said, “Wala ma’am, sorry po, oorder kayo?” . I said NO and just said bye. I just dialled 911.11.11 and you know who answered. And, I got my pizza in 30 minutes, hot and steaming.
Bottomline, GC is far,far,far comparable to the original YC. Only “stupid people” (sorry for the word) will think that it is an affiliate of YC. YC also, having numerous branches will be stupidier to branch out under a “different color” isn’t it?
But anyway, the court already gave out the ruling and GC was ordered to pay the amount of Php300,000 for damages. For GC which is just a small business compared to YC, that costs a branch.
Lesson learned, we must always think of originality. Or pay the price.
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hehe astig. havent heard of green cab yet. tagal na pala yan.
yep! masarap in fairness!
“Police station?” Hehe nakakatawa isipin na yung may ari ng green cab ay walang ka muwang muwang na yung empleyado nya ay sumasagot ng Police Station kung may tatawag sa kanila.