Furniture firm furious at 'copycat" larger rival Customers who believe that they are buying a Raft product know it is reclaimed, that the supplier is certified by the Forest Stewardship Council, that it has been ethically sourced and they are not contributing to global deforestation. Instead, they could find they're buying furniture made from newly- felled trees. In response to confusion and complaints from customers and franchisees, Mr Quinn contacted Harveys last week. He says he was assured by the company's commercial director that Raft's branding would be removed from the range. However, the Raft name remained on the Harveys site as of yesterday afternoon. Microsoft wouldn't do a white range of computers and call them the Apple range. It's only because I'm so small," Mr Quinn said. Large corporations on the high street are disrespecting the intellectual property of smaller companies. Mr Quinn said he believes the problem has got worse during the downturn as large companies have cut their product development spending."Tweaking something enough to bend but not break the rules I can accept. Taking a company's styling is one thing but a trademarked name is quite another. I can only think they didn't realise we had a trademark, Raft, a £3m turnover firm which Business Club featured in December, has written to Harveys asking for the products to be removed and for an apology. A spokesman for Harveys said: " We are aware of Mr Quinn's inquiry and our legal team are due to respond to him." Since learning of the Harveys range last week, Mr Quinn has added to the Europe-wide trademark he secured in 2007 by registering Raft in the US and China. "It's been a real wake up call," he said.