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crazyscot ([personal profile] crazyscot) wrote2011-07-23 09:05 pm

Wiltshire has been trademarked

... I'm not sure what all its residents are expected to do. There's a line of homewares here called Wiltshire WonderBake, and the packaging asserts that both those words are registered trademarks of the makers.
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[personal profile] phoebesmum 2011-07-23 10:13 am (UTC)(link)
Live in happy corporate fiefdom, I guess.
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[personal profile] simont 2011-07-23 05:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Perhaps I shouldn't spoil your fun, but ... call any similar product they make and sell by a name other than the county it comes from. Trademarks only apply in a particular field of endeavour.

(Perhaps I need to include 'if they sell it in New Zealand' too, depending on the scope of the trademark.)
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[personal profile] bens_dad 2011-07-23 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
It seems that there is a hamlet in Wiltshire called ....
New Zealand !

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand,_Wiltshire