Seeka

[RTM]

I recall similar debate re A2M with respect to patents.....

[kiora]

A2M milk test Patent expired?
https://www.foodanddrinkbusiness.com...patent-expires
"A patent filed in New Zealand 20 years ago by the founders of The a2 Milk Company to protect their milk testing method expired yesterday, but the growing company says it's business as usual."

Marketing in ASA?

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I recall similar debate re A2M with respect to patents.....

unlikely to be relevant imo.
There is no patent for A2 milk though the above link shows a patent for the testing ....

BTW to prevent double posting you need to wait for the hourglass and status bar updates to finish. I Click once and then go and make a cup of tea.

[Baa_Baa]

A2M milk test Patent expired?
https://www.foodanddrinkbusiness.com...patent-expires
"A patent filed in New Zealand 20 years ago by the founders of The a2 Milk Company to protect their milk testing method expired yesterday, but the growing company says it's business as usual."

Marketing in ASA?

The date of the article appears to be, 4 November 2015

[RTM]

BTW to prevent double posting you need to wait for the hourglass and status bar updates to finish. I Click once and then go and make a cup of tea.

Yes...I succeed with this occasionally. Thanks.

But lately...without touching anything...I seem to bet getting a pop-up message saying " Leave Site ? Changes you made may not be saved." And two boxes...Leave and Cancel. Then it just sits and not sure what I end up doing to exit cleanly. Annoying. Must be really p.......ing off the frequent posters.

[kiora]

The date of the article appears to be, 4 November 2015

Yes it does BB. That's when the milk test patent expired?

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Then it just sits and not sure what I end up doing to exit cleanly. Annoying. Must be really p.......ing off the frequent posters.

No no we just love our time being soaked up in the name of community spirit!! (Edit - remove stuff that might annoy The Gods)

[Biscuit]

.....But lately...without touching anything...I seem to bet getting a pop-up message saying " Leave Site ? Changes you made may not be saved." And two boxes...Leave and Cancel. ....

I always just click "Leave" and it posts just one message...eventually

[Joshuatree]

Actually - It is quite easy to grow Kiwi fruit from their seeds. Given that we sell these fruit for lots of money to overseas countries, what would be wrong with anybody just following these simple steps to grow their own?

https://foodiegardener.com/how-to-gr...ht-kiwi-fruit/

Just because somebody in NZ thinks that they don't like it (I doubt it is illegal ...) - why should somebody in China care ... particularly if they legally bought the fruit they use to grow the plant?

They don't care because they know they can get away with it,their govt won't pull them up and there is money to be made,slap a zespri sticker on even better,add value ,and zespri paid for it all.Actually 5,000 hectares now ,10 million trays.Zespri naively think marketing illegal Chinese gold kiwis is a solution!?. Fool me once.....no shame over there though,just milk it.

[winner69]

Kiwi fruit industry that they PICKED and exported a record amount of fruit this year

Obviously finding labour not a problem after all

Whatever well done that industry