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Friday, January 23, 2004
Mike Rowe
Guardian Unlimited: "Like any successful entrepreneur, Mike Rowe, 17, knew he needed a catchy name for his fledgling business.
So the Canadian teenager was pleased when he came up with mikerowesoft.com for the web design operation he was running to supplement his studies.
'Since my name is Mike Rowe, I thought it would be funny to add soft to the end of it,' said Mr Rowe, from British Columbia.
Unfortunately the software giant, Microsoft, missed the joke. In November Mr Rowe received a letter from the company informing him he was infringing copyright. "

Read the whole thing and look for more. I recall Harry Ramsden's chip shop being similary upset w/ Harry Ramadan's curry house a while back....
Posted at 12:00 PM by John.

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