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GeneralRe: Don’t call it Rust: Community complains about draft trademark policy restricting use of ‘word marks’ Pin
Dan Neely13-Apr-23 3:16
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GeneralRe: Don’t call it Rust: Community complains about draft trademark policy restricting use of ‘word marks’ Pin
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GeneralRe: Don’t call it Rust: Community complains about draft trademark policy restricting use of ‘word marks’ Pin
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GeneralRe: Don’t call it Rust: Community complains about draft trademark policy restricting use of ‘word marks’ Pin
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GeneralRe: Don’t call it Rust: Community complains about draft trademark policy restricting use of ‘word marks’ Pin
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GeneralRe: Don’t call it Rust: Community complains about draft trademark policy restricting use of ‘word marks’ Pin
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GeneralRe: Don’t call it Rust: Community complains about draft trademark policy restricting use of ‘word marks’ Pin
Dan Neely14-Apr-23 3:41
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trønderen14-Apr-23 7:07
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In Norway, this surimi based product cannot be sold as 'krabbepinner' (a direct translation of 'crab sticks'), as it is not made from crab at all. So it is sold as 'crab sticks', using the English term.

A number of years ago, Dahls Brewery of Trondheim, Norway, was making Norway's very best lemon soft drink, marketing it as 'Real Lemon Soda'. The authorities went after them, ordered them to stop the selling of it, using false advertising. Dahls protested: The regulations say that you can uses terms like 'Lemon' (or orange, apple or whatever is relevant) if the natural juice content is at least 8%. Their 'Lemmy' had 12% natural lemon juice! Yet, they were not allowed to sell Lemmy while the case was processed by the courts. The courts decided that Dahls was allowed to sell Lemmy as 'Lemon Soda', but not as real Lemon Soda Smile | :) . It took the courts a year to reach this conclusion. In the meantime, competing lemon sodas had taken over the market. For a period, Dahls tried to market Lemmy as 'Lemon Soda' (but not 'real'!), but never managed to recoup any significant market share. After a couple of years, Lemmy was discontinued. I still miss it.

Some times, law makers / authorities behave in ways that, if duplicated by an individual would cause that individual to be taken care of by personnel in light green coats in subdued light.
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