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Re:A small restaurant owner on Google, DoorDash, and Grubhub by jklein11 on Friday May 15, 2020 @02:54PM (#23195917)
I think a closer analogy is a shop hanging a poster out front saying "Buy Samsung TV's here!" When you ask the shop keeper about the sign, they take you to the TV section where there is a huge philipps tv display says that the TVs are in here.

DoorDash isn't telling you that Applebees is Saddleback BBQ, they are just not making it as easy as they could to help you find what you are looking for.

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Re:A small restaurant owner on Google, DoorDash, and Grubhub by Judgmentality on Friday May 15, 2020 @02:57PM (#23195957)
Strongly disagree. Clicking on the link for Saddleback BBQ is effectively saying "take me to their ordering page" and I don't see how you could reasonably expect otherwise.

Fraud is hard to prove because you have to prove intent, but this at best incompetence, almost assuredly false advertising, and pretty clearly fraud although good luck proving it in court.

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Re:A small restaurant owner on Google, DoorDash, and Grubhub by pbhjpbhj on Friday May 15, 2020 @05:30PM (#23197692)
FWIW the measure of trademark infringement is balance of probability, as it's civil law. So that would probably be the best way to combat it. Damages are probably less.
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Re:A small restaurant owner on Google, DoorDash, and Grubhub by jklein11 on Friday May 15, 2020 @08:57PM (#23199394)
Looking at the ad[1] that Saddleback put in their article, I can't possibly see what would warrant incompetence, let alone false advertising or fraud.

How is this any different than a newspaper ad saying "You can get Coke at Krogers" and then Krogers having a Pepsi display in the soda aisle.

1. https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/6KsGyAeFFfeliOLsLJzPQf5o1o...

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Re:A small restaurant owner on Google, DoorDash, and Grubhub by Judgmentality on Friday May 15, 2020 @09:38PM (#23199665)
Because clicking on a link is different from reading a poster. I think we just have to agree to disagree.
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Re:A small restaurant owner on Google, DoorDash, and Grubhub by jklein11 on Saturday May 16, 2020 @12:16PM (#23204697)
I'm sorry I'm not trying to be obtuse here. I would genuinely like to understand your point of view.

I'm not sure if you were the one who downvoted me here but it hardly seems fair to downvote someone for having a different point of view.

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