A U.S. burger chain will continue to own the trademark to the phrase “double-double” in Canada, largely because of its yearly visits to a Langley charity car show.
Since 2004, In-N-Out Burger, a California-based restaurant chain with no Canadian outlets, has owned the Canadian trademark on the phrase double-double, with the hyphen between the two “doubles.”
That’s despite the fact that its most well-known usage in Canada is for a coffee with two creams and two sugars, and the words are popularly associated with orders at the Tim Hortons chain.