{"id":55385,"date":"2023-05-22T13:07:19","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T04:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/22\/new-zealand-loses-fight-over-manuka-honey-trademark"},"modified":"2023-05-22T13:07:19","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T04:07:19","slug":"new-zealand-loses-fight-with-australia-over-manuka-honey-trademark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55385","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand loses fight with Australia over m\u0101nuka honey trademark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Intellectual Property Office rules that New Zealand beekeepers\u2019 attempt to stop Australian producers using the name did not meet necessary requirements<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand honey producers have lost their latest battle to trademark m\u0101nuka honey, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/04\/new-zealand-and-australia-prepare-to-do-battle-again-over-treasured-and-lucrative-manuka-honey\">latest blow in a years-long fight<\/a> to stop Australian beekeepers using the lucrative name.<\/p>\n<p>The Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand ruled on Monday that New Zealand m\u0101nuka beekeepers\u2019 attempt for a trademark did not meet necessary requirements, and the term m\u0101nuka was descriptive.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/22\/new-zealand-loses-fight-over-manuka-honey-trademark\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intellectual Property Office rules that New Zealand beekeepers\u2019 attempt to stop Australian producers using the name did not meet necessary requirementsNew Zealand honey producers have lost their latest battle to trademark m\u0101nuka honey, the latest blow &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2034,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43,311,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-food","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55386,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55385\/revisions\/55386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}