Pureoaty vs Oat-ly

Diagro said:
How is there a case to even answer to?
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The phrase "patent troll" comes to my mind. My guess is that the bigger company expected the smaller company to fold in the face of legal costs despite the frivolous nature of the claim.

The only similarity I see is that the packaging is the same type and shape. Which is a very widely used type and shape - it's a standardised container made by the million.

Or the word "oat". In that case, Quaker should be suing Oatly. Quaker Porridge Oats has been around a lot longer than Oatly.

Or Oatly is trying to prevent any other company selling oat milk at all.

Patent trolling. Copyright rather than patent, but the same kind of thing.
 
I was amused at this. There's so many differences in name/packaging that i really struggle to see where the claim comes from.
 
Has anyone ever been in the oat/almond/soy milk aisle? My god it is a mine field.
 
Noxia said:
Well it's with the rest of the milk so yes. Excluding the weird long life stuff. Recently got into coconut 'milk' in my coffee.
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Ah the chilled stuff isn't a patch on the barrage of long-life options.

Does anyone know what the discernible difference is between long-life milked nuts versus chilled milked nuts?
 
I don't mind the aldi long life unsweetened soya. Morrisons organic OK also, actually OK in tea, tolerable in coffee but oat milk latte great and my choice if I splash out £3.50 at a cafe.
Seems the claims soya contains oestrogen are overblown but I have become better at multitasking and picking out nice curtains since drinking (moon man drifts off topic)
 
DireEmblem said:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-57425162

Surely a total con, you cant copyright a common ingredient, and the designs/names are distinctive enough.

I hope our UK company wins this.
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There’s a difference in terminology that’s worth pointing out, not that it is material for your post! This concerns trademarks (i.e. something unique which is associated with the attributes of a product / brand) rather than copywrite (i.e. the protection of original creative works).

At face value, Oatly seems to lack the core things required for a trademark as little more than a description of the product… but because the names are similar it could be asserted that one is trying to ride the good will of the other. So I’m curious to see the outcome.
 
Sounds like big company bully little company, if I was into oat milk I'd probably want to buy the PureOaty over Oat-ly, screw Opera and Jay-Z, that remind me I need to cancel Tidal it's rubbish.

Won't be surprised if court sides with Oat-ly, typical.
 
moon man said:
I don't mind the aldi long life unsweetened soya. Morrisons organic OK also, actually OK in tea, tolerable in coffee but oat milk latte great and my choice if I splash out £3.50 at a cafe.
Seems the claims soya contains oestrogen are overblown but I have become better at multitasking and picking out nice curtains since drinking (moon man drifts off topic)
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:cry: 10/10
 
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