VeserrOatly banned from using word ‘milk’ to market plant-based products in UK
FedegenerateThis, this is what my country thinks is valuable to be doing right now? Not all the nonces that may or may not be being blackmailed by hostile powers? But that oat milk is called milk?
In fairness, its a supreme court ruling after a dairy uk(3rd party) objected to a trademark and its been going on for awhile. So it’s not like it was specifically put on the agender by any government or authority.
I’m not sure why “in fairness” applys here? I don’t disagree it is a supreme court ruling after dairy UK objected to a trademark. I don’t disagree it’s been going on for a while.
What I’m disagreeing with is the supreme court not going “fuck off, you petty time wasting freaks”.
That makes more sense. I interpreted your ‘my country’ more generally… like actions of government or something co-ordinated.
Still, the supreme court just heard and decided the case. Nor is it a consious decision to do this rather than deal with all the other stuff. I guess they could have refused permission to appeal earlier, but I don’t think whatever else going on is a consideration. They’d just look at the case itself. And I think that’s the best way about it.
That said, I’m not sure I agree with it either, but I haven’t read it in full. Just the guardian article.
I imagine more than a little of my frustration is rooted in me not agreeing. But, I think I would have still been frustrated if the SC had decided the other way, just less so. I think regardless I would have wanted:
I guess they could have refused permission to appeal earlier[.]
But, more than that, these nonces have been noncing for actual decades. “The purpose of a system is what it does” is being thrown around a lot recently, I’m not sure organically. But fuck me if the purpose of our system isn’t to protect monied interest and bind the rest of us.
Yeah I can agree with a lot of that, honestly 2008 & so much since has made it pretty clear money’s the priority. Well before that really with thatcher’s bloody privatising spree, selling off everything.
I just don’t think the courts are to blame, parliament & government are to blame for that. And by extension the money lobbying all that, the people who say the problem is immigrants not money.
a question we’re thinking about for a second time?!
I’m unfortunately gonna make it worse for you here, its probably 4 times. The supreme court, court of appeals, the high court and the IPO itself. You can read more on the case here.
Honestly brexit fucked up this since we’re duplicating work now, previously it’d be the EUIPO not the UKIPO doing this. I remember there being talk of creating a merged system even after bexit but no idea what became of that. They need to fix it up at some point, but either way the courts gonna be spending time doing things like this.
Dairy UK Ltd (Respondent) v Oatly AB (Appellant) - UK Supreme Court
(1) Is the term ‘POST MILK GENERATION’ a “designation” for the purposes of Article 78 of Parliament and Council Regulation (EU) No. 1308/2013 (as amended) (the “2013 Regulation”) such that Oatly AB could not register it as a trade mark? (2) If considered a “designation” of “milk”, does the term ‘POST MILK GENERATION’ clearly describe a “characteristic quality of the product” so that its use is not prohibited by the 2013 Regulation?