&gt; Is the world ever going to come to grips with the fact that many tens of thousands of thousands of logos and trademarks are registered each year [3], and it&#x27;s fairly inevitable that some of them will look alike?<p>&quot;This logo was designed by Akisato Ueda for a Japanese drive-in called Azuma in 1975.&quot;<p>So, not a big deal methinks.  US Code calls for the standard to be confusingly similar and in the same industry.