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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Grant" data-source="post: 5778" data-attributes="member: 1">The title of the topic references a legal website which published the court case result. However that is paywalled, so its of no use to anyone. From what I can see there are no media releases on the result, so the main story talks about the case and how its being presented. Basically the OED was used based on the term ManukaThe Australian defence also used “the authoritative Oxford English dictionary definition of manuka as a native of New Zealand and Tasmania”.The dictionary defines manuka as “a small tree with aromatic leaves which are sometimes used for tea, native to New Zealand and Tasmania”.Hence native to Australia. Where they won against the Te Reo version, was that in Te Reo its Maanuka or Mānuka not Manuka so they were able to trade mark it.</blockquote>

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