Pissing Contest

My caring employer is located in a quarter in the northern part of Zürich in Switzerland called Oerlikon. Is also has the name Oerlikon in its name.

1999 we were sold by our mother to a German group. Some years later our former mother changed its name to Unaxis. This was the time when its was extremely fashionable to have an X in a company name. Under its new name, Unaxis was taken over by some Austrian raiders and lost its last bits of credibility in the course of this action. It was then more than reasonable for Unaxis to regain some of it by rebranding themselves to Oerlikon.

My caring employer decided to sue the bastards for violating the terms of sale, according to which the German group holds the exclusive rights to Oerlikon brand name (unfortunately not for being complete nobheads).

A couple of weeks ago, my caring employer lost a battle in court. But the war is not over yet. However, Oerlikon can now use their brand in public. And they did it right across the street of our premises: