I'm not so sure that KFC could even get away with claiming "finger-linkin' good" as a proprietary phrase. That expression, for anything especially tasty, was pretty common, especially in the south, long before Col. Saunders came along.

At one point in the early Sixties, at least nineteen different individuals and music publishers claimed a copyright on "Greensleeves." It's all bluff, of course. If you're dumb enough to pay them royalties or to "cease and desist" just because they say so, they'll take it.

Let the buggers haul you into court (if they're stupid enough to try) and see how far they get.

Don Firth