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This is a false-equivalence. "Milk" is not a trademarked brand name like "Coca Cola" or "ChatGPT", it's a category of food/drink. You can't trademark "milk" in
by nicktelford 3y ago
This is a false-equivalence. "Milk" is not a trademarked brand name like "Coca Cola" or "ChatGPT", it's a category of food/drink. You can't trademark "milk" in the same way you can't trademark "sausages".
A better comparison would be "Not Cola", which AFAIK would be an acceptable name for a drink. See literally all smaller Cola brands which include the word "Cola" in their name.
- tomp 3y agoWell some people in the UK, and myself, disagree. The purpose of a “brand” is to reduce confusion. So that customers know what they’re buying. So I don’t want to buy “an artificially manufactured food in the category of milk”, I want to buy milk.
- dayglo 3y agoWouldn’t the best way to fix this be to just require anyone selling cow’s milk to put ‘cow’s milk’ on the label? Have you ever bought goats milk by mistake ?