Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Iced Vo-Vo biscuits
US manufacturer Krispy Kreme apparently infringes Arnott's biscuit trade mark rights. They have introduced Iced Dough-Vo, and Arnott's are attempting to ensure that they decease.
Doughnuts and biscuits are very often sold by the same source, for example alongside each other on a supermarket shelf, so there's a very strong chance that courts would find that they're 'similar' goods for the purposes of trade mark infringement.
IMO: I do not like Iced Vo-vo biscuits much, although they are a little better than much of Arnott's rather dull range. They are nothing like as good as say Monginis offerings, no comparison. But Arnotts have been making Iced Vo-Vos for about 103 years, it is a certainty that some people really like Iced Vo-Vos, and it seems to defile Australia's heritage that such a stunt should be tried. As India has already found after allowing Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola into India and as a result having water supplies misused etc., these things are best avoided even though they may at first seem trivial. Perhaps it would be best to ban Krispy Kreme from Australia entirely, as they are already one of those guilty of creating the image of the "fat ugly American" (probably with swine fever, voting Republican and carrying out the disgusting practice of "teabagging" - indeed one senator even said he wanted to "teabag" Pres. Obama).
Doughnuts and biscuits are very often sold by the same source, for example alongside each other on a supermarket shelf, so there's a very strong chance that courts would find that they're 'similar' goods for the purposes of trade mark infringement.
IMO: I do not like Iced Vo-vo biscuits much, although they are a little better than much of Arnott's rather dull range. They are nothing like as good as say Monginis offerings, no comparison. But Arnotts have been making Iced Vo-Vos for about 103 years, it is a certainty that some people really like Iced Vo-Vos, and it seems to defile Australia's heritage that such a stunt should be tried. As India has already found after allowing Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola into India and as a result having water supplies misused etc., these things are best avoided even though they may at first seem trivial. Perhaps it would be best to ban Krispy Kreme from Australia entirely, as they are already one of those guilty of creating the image of the "fat ugly American" (probably with swine fever, voting Republican and carrying out the disgusting practice of "teabagging" - indeed one senator even said he wanted to "teabag" Pres. Obama).
# posted by uv : 4:02 AM
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