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SattarBuksh wins trademark case against Starbucks

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Sattar Buksh, a Karachi-based café owner famous for his humorous menu items like the “Besharam Burger”, LOC Pizza, got into trademark branding dispute with Starbucks. The multinational claimed that the resemblance in logo and name could confuse customers, dilute its brand and potentially infringe on trademark laws. When you think Starbucks, the multinational, you picture the iconic green siren. In Karachi two Pakistani entrepreneurs Rizwan Ahmad and Adnan Yousuf, opened a café called Sattarbuksh,  (buksh, meaning servant). They think it is parody not piracy. Although at first glance their logo resembled like a cheeky twin of Starbucks, except instead of mermaid, … Continue reading SattarBuksh wins trademark case against Starbucks

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Everyday heroism of one community

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Robert Seethaler’s characters are unassuming, resilient and witness to a world that seems to rage especially around them.  It is 1966, Robert Simon has just fulfilled his dream by taking over a Robert Simon, an ordinary man whose blue eyes “were the only handsome thing about him”, and who takes over a rundown café in “ one of the poorest and dirtiest” districts in bustling Vienna. He recruits a barmaid Mila, and soon the customers flock in. Factory workers, market traders, elderly ladies, a wrestler, a painter, an unemployed seamstress in search of a job, each bringing their own stories … Continue reading Everyday heroism of one community