Shahnaz Husain has a plan. She’s going to open a chain of coffee shops.

She’s naming them Starstrucks.

Of course Starbucks truly believes that this is just flat-out wrong as should anyone with any common sense.

Husain, an herbal beauty specialist who has a range of skincare and haircare products and salons named after her, is not willing to give up the name, the paper said.

“Why should I give it up? Hundreds of others are deceptively similar. What to do? They have opposed and we will fight,” Husain, called the Herbal Queen, told Mint.

Husain plans to open 25 stores in a year. The shops will have a glamour theme, with posters of movie stars, the paper said.

“My concept’s totally different,” she said.

The problem, of course, is that Starbucks is already in use globally, and that Starstrucks isn’t an actual english word or name meaning it was probably formulated specifically to look and sound like Starbucks.

Unless it’s just a coincidence that a meaningless non-english word used as a name for a coffee chain happens to mimic the actual name of the most popular coffee chain in the world.

Pure coincidence, I’m sure.

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