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This request is not baseless at all. If you have in the supermarket a noname cheese that is branded "Grana Padano style", it would hurt the trademark.

codetrotter 6y ago
Reminds me of a case here in Norway a few years ago back in 2016 where Synnøve Finden, one of the biggest dairy companies in the country, produced a new cheese and marketed it as a “Jarlsberg type cheese”. The dairy company that makes Jarlsberg did not look happily at this and was able to get a ruling that Synnøve Finden was not allowed to do this. https://www.dairyreporter.com/Article/2016/12/16/TINE-and-Synnoeve-Finden-case-over-Jarlsberg-ended https://www.dairyreporter.com/Article/2016/12/16/TINE-and-Sy... What the article I linked here does not mention however is that Synnøve Finden complied in a bit of a joking matter where for all of the cheese that had already been packaged with such labeling they printed out black stickers that said “CENSORED” over where the wording with Jarlsberg was. In doing so they managed to get an extra bit of publicity. I only ever bought Kongsgård once and prefer the original Jarlsberg, but I know that some people liked Kongsgård. Seems that in a blind test more people liked the original Jarlsberg better too. https://www.tv2.no/a/8119934/ https://www.tv2.no/a/8119934/ (article in Norwegian). And it looks like the Kongsgård cheese is no longer being sold since 2018. https://dagligvarehandelen.no/2018/kongsgard-ost-ut-av-hyllene https://dagligvarehandelen.no/2018/kongsgard-ost-ut-av-hylle... (paywalled, Norwegian)
visarga 6y ago
> This request is not baseless at all. If you have in the supermarket a noname cheese that is branded "Grana Padano style", it would hurt the trademark. You don't sell cheese on YouTube, though. Why should private commercial interests be able to censure free speech around the globe?
- veselin 6y ago
  It does not need to sell in any quantities. The mere presence of it hurts the trademark.
AlgorithmicTime 6y ago
He's not selling cheese and claiming that it's "Grana Padano." He's saying, "hey, follow my instructions and you can make a cheese that is very much like Grana Padano." That's perfectly legal. In fact, it would also be legal to sell "Grana Padano Style" cheese in the supermarket.

codetrotter 6y ago

Reminds me of a case here in Norway a few years ago back in 2016 where Synnøve Finden, one of the biggest dairy companies in the country, produced a new cheese and marketed it as a “Jarlsberg type cheese”. The dairy company that makes Jarlsberg did not look happily at this and was able to get a ruling that Synnøve Finden was not allowed to do this. https://www.dairyreporter.com/Article/2016/12/16/TINE-and-Synnoeve-Finden-case-over-Jarlsberg-ended https://www.dairyreporter.com/Article/2016/12/16/TINE-and-Sy... What the article I linked here does not mention however is that Synnøve Finden complied in a bit of a joking matter where for all of the cheese that had already been packaged with such labeling they printed out black stickers that said “CENSORED” over where the wording with Jarlsberg was. In doing so they managed to get an extra bit of publicity. I only ever bought Kongsgård once and prefer the original Jarlsberg, but I know that some people liked Kongsgård. Seems that in a blind test more people liked the original Jarlsberg better too. https://www.tv2.no/a/8119934/ https://www.tv2.no/a/8119934/ (article in Norwegian). And it looks like the Kongsgård cheese is no longer being sold since 2018. https://dagligvarehandelen.no/2018/kongsgard-ost-ut-av-hyllene https://dagligvarehandelen.no/2018/kongsgard-ost-ut-av-hylle... (paywalled, Norwegian)

visarga 6y ago

> This request is not baseless at all. If you have in the supermarket a noname cheese that is branded "Grana Padano style", it would hurt the trademark. You don't sell cheese on YouTube, though. Why should private commercial interests be able to censure free speech around the globe?

veselin 6y ago
It does not need to sell in any quantities. The mere presence of it hurts the trademark.

AlgorithmicTime 6y ago

He's not selling cheese and claiming that it's "Grana Padano." He's saying, "hey, follow my instructions and you can make a cheese that is very much like Grana Padano." That's perfectly legal. In fact, it would also be legal to sell "Grana Padano Style" cheese in the supermarket.