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Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 11:56 am
by Istenem
:)

all yours NM

Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 12:02 pm
by Northern Monkey
OK straightforward pub quiz type fayre.

What was the UK's first ever registered trademark?

Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 12:20 pm
by Istenem
i'll go for coca cola although that is almost certainly wrong

Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 12:30 pm
by Northern Monkey
Correct that is most certainly wrong.

Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 2:28 pm
by Mattb
Seeing as a lot of industry started on this fair isle i reckon it'll be an old british company. Maybe an old brewery like Greene King?

Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 2:34 pm
by Istenem
fox's chocolate cream?

Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 2:38 pm
by Northern Monkey
Mattb is extremely warm.

Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 2:46 pm
by Istenem
newcastle brown ale?

Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 2:54 pm
by Northern Monkey
Nope. The company that registered the trademark was one of Britain's most historic Plcs (forming part of the original FTSE Top 30). Today the company is no longer recognisable having been shamefully allowed to change its name and dispose of the product line to which the trademark relates.

Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 4:09 pm
by Istenem
guinness?

Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 4:30 pm
by Stevie S
Cains?

Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 4:30 pm
by Northern Monkey
Nope not guiness. Company in question is now a hotel operator.

Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 4:32 pm
by Northern Monkey
or Cains. Company in question also used to own Leisure Link in one of its earlier incarnations

Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 4:41 pm
by Istenem
the travelodge group? complete stab in the dark given the clues except the very last one.

Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 4:45 pm
by Northern Monkey
Nope and don't forget we are looking for the trademark not the company (although the two are inextricably linked)