If you mess with the candymaker, the candymaker will hit back, hard:

The giant blue M&M that was banished from two video billboards for imitating Times Square’s Naked Cowboy has come back swinging.

Mars, the maker of M&Ms, has filed a petition with the Patent and Trademark Office accusing the Naked Cowboy, whose real name is Robert Burck, of committing fraud when he obtained his trademark.