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Louis Vuitton sued dog toy company Haute Diggity Dog over their "Chewy Vuiton" chewy handbags. The court ruled in favour of the dog toy company.
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When the BBC tried to trademark the image of the TARDIS, the Metropolitan Police tried to stop them as it is a 'police' box. However the court ruled in favour of the BBC because it's more widely recognised as a time machine.
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In 1996, the BBC applied to register the TARDIS as a trademark and were challenged by the Metropolitan Police. The courts found no evidence that any police force had ever registered the image as a trademark. The courts ruled in BBCs favour.
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When the Kurds revolted against British rule in the 1920's, Winston Churchill said; ''I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against the uncivilized tribes… it would spread a lively terror.'' Decades later, Saddam Hussein did what Churchill advocated (Poison Gas Attack on Halabja, 1988).
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A court once ruled in favour of a landlord who evicted a tenant for spreading surströmming brine in a stairwell after the landlord opened a can of it in court to show how bad it smelled
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Prescriptivism, which prescribes rigid grammatical rules to written English, only came into favour in the late 1800s. Prior to this most writers were comfortable using multiple spellings and grammatical conventions within a single text.
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One of the earliest Copyright battles was a literal battle between two Irish monks over the ownership of a manuscript. When the Irish High King ruled in favour of the Monk who originally produced the manuscript, the monk who had copied the manuscript started a battle which claimed 3000 lives
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In 1987 Harvey Comics sued Columbia Pictures for $50 million, claiming that the iconic Ghostbusters logo was too reminiscent of Fatso from ‘Casper the Friendly Ghost’. The court ruled in Columbia's favour, citing the "limited ways to draw a figure of a cartoon ghost."
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Jerry Falwell sued Hustler magazine over an ad that depicted him having sex with his mother in an outhouse. The Supreme Court ruled in Hustler's favour.
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In a match between Iran and Denmark, an Iranian player confused a whistle from the crowd as the end of the first half, picking the ball with his hands. The referee ruled a penalty in Denmark's favour. The kicker purposely missed, earning them Denmark a "Fair Play" award, but they lost that game
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In 1939, Hitler's publisher sued correspondent Alan Cranston for copyright infringement over Mein Kampf, and a Connecticut judge ruled in Hitler's favour.
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In 2008 Erdoğan's AKP party narrowly escaped closure and the banning of its members from politics on the charge of violating secularist values. The closure request failed by a single vote; six of eleven judges ruled in favour, with seven being required.
