Amanj Ali has been left out of pocket after taking on Elon Musk's company in the dispute.
Boss of Colorado's Chicken, Amanj Ali, opposed Tesla's attempt to register its name for food and drink services in the UKA chicken shop owner in Greater Manchester who took on Tesla in a trademark dispute has been left £12,000 out of pocket after losing his case.He then opposed electric car maker Tesla's bid to protect its trademark for food and drinks services in the UK.
Mr Ali owns Colorado's Chicken in Bury, and in May 2020 registered "Tesla Chicken & Pizza" with the Intellectual Property Office in class 43 for food and drink services. When asked why he wanted to name his business after Nikola Tesla, he said: "He was a kind of intelligent guy... in my young age, I was... reading about him, looking at his pictures."
Tesla had requested protection for its international trademarks in the UK in the food and drink category, which also covers pop-up, self-service and take-out restaurant services. Mr Ali said he would have appealed against the decision if he had the money, but he did not want to spend any more, and the two-year long dispute caused him stress "every day".