{"id":587572,"date":"2026-08-09T02:52:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T02:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/587572\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T02:52:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T02:52:13","slug":"supermacs-wins-latest-battle-with-mcdonalds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/587572\/","title":{"rendered":"Supermac\u2019s wins latest battle with McDonald\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Supermac\u2019s has won its latest battle with McDonald\u2019s and has been given the green light to expand into the UK market.<\/p>\n<p>The UK Intellectual Property Office has ruled that the Irish company\u2019s name and logo are significantly different to the US fast-food chain\u2019s name and logo, meaning they can be registered in Britain.<\/p>\n<p>It follows a ruling in June from the EU Intellectual Property Office, which rejected Supermac\u2019s application for an EU-wide trademark.<\/p>\n<p>Supermacs was founded in Ballinasloe in 1978 by former school teacher Pat McDonagh<\/p>\n<p>Mr. McDonagh, says the UK market is more important to his business, and this is an important and lucrative win:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.midwestradio.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/NEWSTALK202608080126.wav\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.midwestradio.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/NEWSTALK202608080126.wav<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 Supermac\u2019s has won its latest battle with McDonald\u2019s and has been given the green light to expand&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-587572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}