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Oatly banned from using word ‘milk’ to market plant-based products in UK
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It’s a stupid decision but I don’t think the people in charge of this are the same people investigating blackmail by foreign powers.
Makes about as much sense as the people who say ‘why do we bother researching space when we have problems here on earth?’
The supreme court?
they'd just hear the case, not investigate. Plus it'd have to go through the lower courts first and some of that might just be a inquiry before convictions sadly :(
I guess there is a massive backlog of cases, but I think it's fair to hear this one.
You think it's fair to hear corporate lobbying on the use of the word 'milk' in reference to a product that has existed since the early 1990s without confusion? Despite massive backlogs being such a national issue that prisoners are being released early, jury trials are being scrapped, and the current government campaigned on it...
Going through multiple courts, using up multiple clerks, lawyers, and judge's time?
And that's fair?
And now this non-milk milk, which every layperson refers to as milk, can no longer be labeled milk, despite everyone likely to continue calling it milk.
That is a fair use of limited court time and salaries?
Yeah, I still think it should be heard. I think the decision may be off, and it probably should have stopped at the CA but if it was granted permission to appeal go right ahead.
Most of the issues there I think are due to massive underfunding, cuts and bad management. Or similar issues in other adjacent sectors, like prison management, cps and policing.
I don't think because they've been pushed into that situation they should just stop doing they're normal functions for other areas of law. Trademarks out of all IP I think are nessisary both from a business and consumer protection prespective. And the courts cannot decided weather to hear a case or not based on who brought it, lobbyers or no. Although yes the decision I'm not keen on and it probably should have been decided earlier.
If they want to use milk in trademarks there should be a change to the legislation on what trademarks are prohibited and what 'milk' as a designation mean. It doesn't prevent people calling it milk just blocked the use of the trademark, notes how trademark law interprets milk as a designation and how the trademark in question is interpreted.