When I lived in Abu Dhabi back in 1980 there was a guy who went to the local hardware store and bought some yellow plastic and cut out a pair of golden arches and voila, Mc'Donald's! Except he spelled it Mc'Donald. At the time Mc'Donald's had no franchises in the Arabian Gulf countries because of their franchises in Israel. That ban was not lifted until after the First Gulf War in 1990.

Mc'Donald's sued the guy for trademark infringement in the court in Abu Dhabi. The judge ruled against them and basically said, 'You are a big company and he is just a small man. He is not hurting you. Now, Go away!'

The hamburgers were total crap by the way but I liked the local approach to 'justice' in this instance!