Josepphine Bacon

London

legal translator

This type of bullying is now common. It is initiated by greedy lawyers who think that because they have a famous client IMicrosoft, Sky, Intel, etc.) they can persecute anyone with a similar name, even if they are in a completely different area of business, and threaten them. But they don't always win. A friend of mine had a translation company called Future Perfect a few years ago. He was sued by Microsoft's lawyers (Clifford Chance) who had the bright idea that anything with the words "Perfect" in the name would be actionable, even though the actual name "Future Perfect" had not been registered. The big guys lost!
Furthermore, in the United States there is indeed HUGE confusion over names because different companies can register the same name in different states, quite legally, as company name registration comes under State law rather than Federal law.