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This is kind of the opposite of a similar situation that just happened in Chile The company NotCo got sued by the milk producers association for mis-using the
by nico 3y ago
This is kind of the opposite of a similar situation that just happened in Chile
The company NotCo got sued by the milk producers association for mis-using the word Leche (milk in Spanish) in their NotMilk product so it doesn’t use the word Milk
The milk producers won and the courts have ordered NotCo to change the name of their NotMilk product
- sircastor 3y agoI think the Dairy Association recently has tried to litigate against products like Almond Milk to prevent them from using the word "milk".
- jagged-chisel 3y agoI feel like that is (should be?) more about food safety rather than IP. If you call it X but it has no nutritional similarity to X, that could be dangerous to consumers. That's not to say other attempts at protecting food-related terms aren't profit protection instead. Take "champagne" for example...
- isykt 3y ago>If you call it X but it has no nutritional similarity to X, that could be dangerous to consumers. And yet nobody seems to have been harmed by the existence of these terms: (1) Sweetbread (2) Coconut Meat (3) Coconut Milk (4) Nutmeat (5) Headcheese (6) Welsh Rabbit (7) Rocky Mountain Oysters (8) Boston Cream Pie (9) Scotch Woodcock (10) Cold Duck None of which refer to the nominal food definition of the term in their name.