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Bear with me, sweet Flocke

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Flocke: Polar bear or sweet firm.

A zoo in the German town of Nuremberg and a sweet firm are engaged in a legal battle over the name of a polar bear cub. It all started when the Bavarian sweet manufacturer Fair Field registered the name Flocke, meaning snowflake, on January 13, days before the Nurmeberg zoo announced the same name for its hugely popular polar bear cub. The cub is worth a fortune for the zoo with handsome earnings from both admission tickets and licensing and merchandising deals. The zoo co ntended that the sweet firm did not only register the name Flocke but also Flocke the polar bear and Flocke the polar bear cub. It said the firm never had anything to do with polar bears and therefore, the registration of such names was “pretty odd” thing to do.

COMPLIED BY NIMI KURIAN

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