Luke Littler threatening to sue pub over name designed as tribute to darts champion

LUKE LITTLER is threatening to SUE a pub proprietor implicit plans to sanction his boozer 'Nukes Sports Bar'.

Owen Williams ran an online canvass that concluded his caller barroom successful Warrington, Cheshire, should beryllium dedicated to the town's superstar darts player.

But aft splashing retired £5,000 connected caller branding, the 32-year-old was slapped with a ineligible missive that claims to beryllium from Littler's representatives, banning him from utilizing their celebrated client's nickname.

That's adjacent though Williams believes it's intended simply "a tribute to his success" - with Littler ranked No2 successful the satellite and existent satellite champion.

The 'infringement of trademark rights' enactment that purports to beryllium from a ineligible steadfast explains The Nuke, Luke Littler and Luke The Nuke Littler are registered trademarks.

It outlines their sanction and their logo's fonts and purple and yellowish benignant are powerfully associated with Littler and could confuse the nationalist into reasoning he's linked to the bar.

It demands Williams indispensable cease utilizing "Nukes" successful the bar's sanction by February 21, earlier threatening to resistance him to tribunal if helium doesn't.

The dad-of-one believes helium hasn't caused an contented since the connection "Nuke" has not been trademarked and hopes to resoluteness the issue.

He posted to Facebook to beg followers to tag Littler and "see if we tin halt the small antheral being crushed."

If forced to alteration the name, Owen says the £5,000 spent connected branding would beryllium wasted and the opening of the barroom would request to beryllium delayed.

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He says the ordeal has near him with a "sour sensation successful his mouth" but doesn't judge Luke is alert of the missive and alternatively blames his ineligible team.

The proprietor noted however Warrington Wolves rugby squad haven't had immoderate issues with rename their stadium "The Luke Litter Stadium" for a crippled connected February 21.

He admits he'll person to alteration the sanction if an statement can't beryllium reached but says it would beryllium a shame fixed the naming was simply "a designation of his achievements".

Williams, from Warrington, said: "It's mad. We conscionable wanted to recognise each his achievements.

"When I saw [the letter] I thought 'how tin I spend to support this?'. I've got a five-month-old truthful I surely don't privation to beryllium warring ineligible battles.

"They accidental they tin halt maine from utilizing the connection 'nukes' due to the fact that his nickname is precise well-known but they haven't trademarked 'nukes'.

"There's bars each crossed the state named aft people.

"We planned to beryllium unfastened successful 2 weeks but this is going to acceptable america backmost due to the fact that we've spent astir £5,000 connected things similar signage, model creation and societal media branding.

"It's acceptable america backmost financially, timing-wise and it makes maine look a spot daft arsenic good truthful it leaves a sour sensation successful my mouth.

"The Warrington Wolves [rugby team] person conscionable named their stadium the Luke Littler Stadium and it looks arsenic though they're moving with him. Maybe I request to invitation him here.

"It's evidently not him [Luke]. It's the squad he's got down him, truthful possibly if helium sees this we could enactment thing out.

"I'd similar him to perceive astir this and assistance out."

The ineligible missive outlines the darts prima is "concerned" astir the likelihood of members of the nationalist mistakenly believing that helium is successful immoderate mode commercially connected to the bar.

They assertion that a barroom utilizing "Nukes" could besides origin disorder betwixt caller nutrient and portion products he's registered his sanction for.

Williams, who runs different barroom successful Warrington, plans to interaction the instrumentality steadfast to recognize if there's thing helium tin bash to support the name.

He said: "Some mightiness accidental we're jumping connected the bandwagon but it was voted for by the nationalist successful Warrington.

"That's the quality of it. We enactment retired a ballot and they chose it.

"It's rather a threatening ineligible missive and there's nary mode I tin spend to combat it truthful it looks similar we'll person to alteration the name.

"Hopefully thing happens successful the adjacent fewer days to prevention the wealth we've spent. I'm going to interaction them to spot if we tin hole it."

Williams is simply a large racing instrumentality excessively and says helium whitethorn rename it McCoy's Bar aft the rider AP McCoy.

The bar's station reads: "We are definite this isn't Luke himself and helium would beryllium arrogant to person a barroom recognising his achievements.

"Let's tag him and spot if we tin halt the small antheral being crushed! Pray for the small man.

"Unfortunately we whitethorn person to alteration our sanction earlier it's adjacent begun! Could anyone springiness america immoderate advice?"

One commented: "I don’t recognize this. If Nuke's is present his trademark, each clip idiosyncratic says the connection successful a warfare movie surely he’d person to beryllium paid."

A 2nd said: "It's bittersweet that the radical of Warrington really chose this sanction connected a station you enactment out.

"You listened to america and named it Nuke's."

A 3rd added: "Surely there's nary existent occupation here. You utilized the connection NUKES, not NUKE oregon NUKE'S, surely you should item that fact?"

However 1 said: "Yeah, I’m sorry. I don’t privation to p*** connected your parade but to beryllium blunt, you’ve got the quadrate basal of 0 accidental of getting distant with this."

Luke Littler's representatives did not remark erstwhile approached by SunSport.