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The Australian manuka honey industry has gathered over 5,000 pages of information to fight back in court against New Zealand’s recent attempts to trademark the name ‘manuka’ for its honey, after failed attempts to reach a truce. ....
A group working to secure the term manuka for New Zealand is running out of money. The manuka honey industry was worth to $436 million in exports last year, the Manuka Charitable Trust says. Photo: 123rf In 2019, the government allocated nearly $6 million for a campaign to stop Australian beekeepers marketing their products as manuka honey. The Manuka Charitable Trust is leading the legal fight, working to trademark the term manuka through the Intellectual Property Office. Trust spokesman Victor Goldsmith said part of the money from The Provincial Growth Fund was a $1.7m loan to cover legal proceedings. He said challenges from Australia and UK were pushing up costs and the loan was quickly running out. ....
Tehan discussed the matter with New Zealand s Agriculture Minister Damien O Connor on Monday. I. propose that the Australian and New Zealand governments jointly facilitate a workshop with our respective manuka honey industries, Tehan told ABC News. Including in areas such as industry development, research, joint marketing, technology sharing and addressing fraudulent honey products. John Rawcliffe, spokesperson for New Zealand s MÄnuka Honey Appellation Society says while he hasn t heard any official word on the matter he would absolutely welcome this opportunity . I think it s positive to get to the table, Rawcliffe told Newshub. We have a lot of good science that we re willing to share with Australia. ....
Photo: 123rf The Australian Manuka Honey Association has called for a boycott of New Zealand s honey, unless it changed its mind on sharing the name. Australian Trade Minister Dan Tehan is asking his New Zealand counterpart Damien O Connor for the two countries to work together and reach a trans-Tasman agreement to market the product to the world. However, Te Pitau chair Victor Goldsmith said it was acting on behalf of iwi to protect mānuka and it was not going to sell its culture to Australia. We ve spent a lot of time and money getting us to this position, yes and it is legal, it is litigious, so we need to work through that process because they ve gone too far down that track, at the eleventh hour for them to come to let s sit around the table and work that through. No, Goldsmith said. ....