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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/oatly-milk-trademark-supreme-court-b2918307.html
The UK’s highest court has sided with the dairy industry in the long-running row
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This has the same energy as credit unions being banned from using the word ‘bank’ as a descriptor.
People who impregnate (rape) and abuse cows for their milk are so insecure about their product that they need to ban competition from using its word. It’s really pathetic to watch.
The dairy production industry is particularly odious because its traditional production is relatively innocuous (oh, we just kept milking the cow after it gave birth naturally) but its industrial counterpart is so deeply awful, and they’ll choose whichever presentation is most persuasive in any given discussion.
I take it you like eating meat?
Fuck no
I wonder if Westeros would have ruled against the name “Milk of the poppy.” No? The UK officially has worse takes on law than The Seven Fucking Kingdoms.
Capitalism lol
The title of the article is misleading. The rolling was on the use of “Post Milk Generation” as a trademark for use in their advertising and on their products. It has nothing to do with using “milk” to describe their drinks.
Sadly, every comment in this thread seems to be responding to the title at face value, not the actual court case.
I think it’s a bit silly to prevent the trademark of that slogan, but I’m guessing that’s because I’m missing something in the nuance of what a trademark is, legally, in the UK?
Speculating here with an example of a trademark I know a little bit about: “Grill & Chill” was trademarked by DQ in several jurisdictions. (Aside: and they used that trademark to threaten the “Chill & Grill” restaurant to change its name, despite that use clearly predating DQ’s use of the name by decades, but I digress…) I suppose that’s allowed because “grilling” is directly related to the “trade” of DQ’s services, but something ephemeral like “being a post milk person” is only indirectly related to their “trade” of making non-dairy beverages?
I suppose that makes sense. But still silly, imho.
Its legal team contended that the trademark explicitly conveyed the absence of dairy milk in its offerings.
Conversely, lawyers for Dairy UK argued that the phrase failed to clarify the product’s milk-free nature, instead referring to a specific demographic of consumers.
You can’t not link it to “milk” directly as that was part of the legal argument.
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I don’t understand what you’re trying to say.
The Supreme Court decision was banning their use of the trademarked phrase. As far as I can tell, that’s it. If you can find something in there that contradicts that, I’m all ears. But nothing in the linked article, aside from the terrible headline, says anything about a court ruling on the term “oat milk”.
Unless I missed something, this has no far-reaching consequences and is mostly a nothing burger.
I agree with this, even though milk doesn’t exclusively mean dairy. A milk is the result of the process of milking, where a liquid is excreted from a host, like an animal or plant. Oat milk is oats in suspension; the oat does not remain after it has been milked like an animal or flower. I think technically I’d call it a slurry, but I’m ready for a neologism if anyone has one.
Almond milk has been called ‘milk’ since it was first written about in the 13th century.
There is no logical reason people need the distinction made clearer 800 years later.
People kinda forgot that medieval people couldnt just constantly rely on the lactate-carnist duploly and had several alternatives now considered “trendy” “chemical” products.
How many writers described her skin as milky white? Burn the books!
You don’t think anything at all changed experientially when almond milk was first brought to market in 1998?
Peanut butter isn’t butter, but it’s called that because enough people agreed to call it so. It’s a useful way to referring to something that has similar properties. Likewise, if I ask for a coffee I’ll continue to ask for oat milk and not ‘oat drink’ as the latter sounds stupid.
Oat drink definitely does sound stupid, and I think oat milk will probably stay in the dialect, but have you considered we could come up with a cool cyberpunk name like “spod” or something?
A milk is the result of the process of milking
It can produce other fluids as well.
For sure, but does it make sense to call something a milk if you can’t milk something to produce it? Doesn’t milk of magnesium just feel weird? You can’t milk a magnesium.
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Just at “alternative” in tiny letters under each “milk” word.
I’ll have a latte with soy effluent, please.
Man, I know it’s typical and passé to pass on things with complex names, but it may have been a poor move. Imagine if people stayed away from “dihydrogen monoxide” bottles because they sound like chemically treated poison.
Next up, no more hot dogs that don’t contain dog. No hamburgers that don’t contain ham.
It’s only called Hamburger if it comes from the small town of Hamburg, Germany. Otherwise you must call it reformed organ patty. Ti’s the law.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 hours ago
Soy Juice