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A row has broken out in the US as to who can really be named the real Miss North America. The Derry Company is holding it’s first Miss North America beauty pageant and they have filed suit against an Ohio company who are holding their own pageant of the same name.

North American Productions Inc, claim that they the first to file the trade name Miss North America with the New Hampshire Secretary of State in 2007. The have held 10 pageants in total since then, including ‘Miss Teen North America’, ‘Little Miss North America’ and ‘Mr North America’, and they even hold pageants for cats and dogs!

But, the Ohio based company, Miss North America Ltd., bought the website address domain ‘missteennorthamerica.com’ and ‘missnorth.america.org’. The company had filed it’s trade name in May 2007, whereas North American Productions had beaten them to it in the February.

Whilst North America Productions Inc has described this as deliberate name stealing to destroy their pageant system, undermine it’s success and prevent profitability, the Ohio company have hit back saying they when they were being threatened by NAP they didn’t even own the trademark, and they have decided to dismantle the website because it’s just too much trouble!