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fredoliveirayesterday at 7:42 PM2 repliesview on HN

is there prior art to the EU banning a new technology to protect an old one?


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Retricyesterday at 7:51 PM

GMO etc is arguable but there’s limits around what you can call some things based around how they are made.

milkshakeyeahyesterday at 7:51 PM

Not really I think, but it’s not uncommon to protect product by restricting production methods or ingredients to traditional ones. So name espresso could be legally restricted to only when it’s brewed in traditional way.

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