Bike fanatic Chris Adam named his independent Glasgow dealership TT Motorcycles when he started up two years ago, giving a nod to the famous road race he has followed since he was a boy.
But after watching his one-man business go from strength to strength, the 35-year-old was stunned to receive a letter from government lawyers telling him he must immediately cease trading under the name due to “trade mark infringement”.
Lawyers said Chris’s small firm could take trade away from the Government , which owns the name TT – leaving him w ith no choice but to reinvent his firm as CA Motorcycles.
The dad of one said: “It’s been a sore one, to say the least. I’m just a wee business from Glasgow. I can’t compete with a government on this.
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