Costa Rican Supermarket Wins Trademark Battle Against Nintendo

Knowing quite a bit about the world of Costa Rican grocery stores -- many of which started using "Hiper-" (spanish for hyper-) as a prefix in their names a few decades ago, to one-up markets merely named "Super-" [1] -- I'm actually quite suprised they didn't just rename themselves "Hiper Mario" and save the legal fees. But bravo to them for winning against all odds.

[1] https://ticotimes.net/2004/04/02/hipermas-supermarket-aims-f...

So, Nintendo of America, whose president is Doug Bowser, and who previously sued a Gary Bowser, had gone to court with a José Mario Alfaro González, who owns the supermarket chain Super Mario.

I'm pretty sure, at this point, they're just joshing us all.

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42868220

cf Mickey S.R.L. in Paraguay

Nintendo would rather dump endless amounts of money into law firms, waste time, bully small time players; rather than invest their profits into the company and fixing their god awful network/servers/net code used for multiplayer on the Switch.

Glad they lost.

I miss super Josette markets