Re:Trademark (Score 1)

Actually "Toyoda" is an old Japanese family in Nagoya, one member of which is the founder of Toyota. What we know as Toyota today grew from "Toyoda Automatic Loom Works" so the name wouldn't really by an issue. It would be hard to argue there is dilution here because in his case the public knows from his family name where he is from and his relation to Toyota. http://www.bitlaw.com/trademark/dilution.html