Comment Re:Silly! (Score 1) 350
This happens. Porsche's 911 was originally the 901, but in 1964 Peugot got pissy about a 3 digit number with a 0 in the middle since they had that pattern protected in some fashion.
"Take that, you hostile sons-of-bitches!" -- James Coburn, in the finale of _The_President's_Analyst_