I was very encouraged when I read the news the McCurry won the case against McDonald's who claimed that the former had infringed on the trademark using the word "Mc". This was reported by Bernama on one of the contentions by the defendants, "During the court hearings, McCurry contended that McDonald's could not claim monopoly or exclusive rights to the use of "Mc" as that prefix was extensively used around the world as surnames, particularly by people of Scottish origin." So if this is the case, can the Catholic Church now use the word "Allah" since it is being used by Christian Arabs and Indonesians in their prayers?
We can have it now rephrased as "The Catholic Church contended that the Malaysian Government could not claim monopoly or exclusive rights to the use of "Allah" as that word was extensively used by Christian Arabs and Indonesians, particularly by people of the Catholic faith."
Any learned friends out there who can enlighten us on this?
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