http://agro.biodiver.se/2010/03/protecting-british-food/ Crops, animals, wild relatives ... Tue, 14 Feb 2012 07:45:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://agro.biodiver.se/2010/03/protecting-british-food/comment-page-1/#comment-837783 Andre Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:45:29 +0000 http://agro.biodiver.se/?p=10603#comment-837783 Go <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/agriculture/quality/schemes/index_en.htm" rel="nofollow">here</a>, enter DOOR, and you'll know everything! Go here, enter DOOR, and you’ll know everything!

]]> http://agro.biodiver.se/2010/03/protecting-british-food/comment-page-1/#comment-837681 Paul Mundy Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:23:27 +0000 http://agro.biodiver.se/?p=10603#comment-837681 Any Brit will tell you that the Blighty has a lot more than 10 types of beer and cider worth drinking. But most of them are subject to other sorts of intellectual property protection: trademarks, patents, trade secrets, etc. Try to produce and market your own <b>Old Hooky Ale</b>, for example, and you'll quickly be contacted by the <a href="http://www.hooknortonbrewery.co.uk/" rel="nofollow">Hook Norton Brewery</a>, which brews this admirable product - and owns the trademark. <b>Protected designations of origin</b> and <b>geographical indications</b> are like trademarks, but cover not just one company's products, but the typical products from a particular region. "Old Hooky Ale" wouldn't qualify, but "Cotswold ale" (covering Old Hooky and similar brews) might. Any Brit will tell you that the Blighty has a lot more than 10 types of beer and cider worth drinking. But most of them are subject to other sorts of intellectual property protection: trademarks, patents, trade secrets, etc. Try to produce and market your own Old Hooky Ale, for example, and you’ll quickly be contacted by the Hook Norton Brewery, which brews this admirable product – and owns the trademark.
Protected designations of origin and geographical indications are like trademarks, but cover not just one company’s products, but the typical products from a particular region. “Old Hooky Ale” wouldn’t qualify, but “Cotswold ale” (covering Old Hooky and similar brews) might.

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