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There's a rival to Jane Austen trademark

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From: The Sunday Telegraph London
Date: 20031005
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Your interesting article about Julian Abraham's Jane Austen brand of tea and coffee had only one flaw (News, September 21). Brands are protected by trademarks, and this is what the article rightly discussed, yet the headline described the story as a "plan to patent" Jane Austen's name. Patents protect inventions, novel products or processes.

Last month the name "Jane Austen" was registered as a trademark by a Rachel Morton in connection with restaurants, tea-shops, cafeteria and catering. I do hope that Mr Abraham has taken legal advice before lodging an application for the same mark in a ...

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