Volkswagen

While Wilson was in the village handing out his new business cards to anyone who would take one (and one or two who wouldn't), he noticed the logo on the front of a Volkswagen in the Waitrose car park. 

He examined it closely before declaring, 'WV. Hmmm. That's a very good logo. I could have saved a lot of money if I'd noticed that before I commissioned my own design…'

I explained that it was not WV but VW, and the logo had belonged to Volkswagen since the 1930s.

'Intellectual Property Law is a complex area fraught with difficulties,' he replied. 'Given the right lawyer, I think I could have successfully sued them for infringement of my design; at the very least they'd have given me a free car to keep me quiet. Probably.'