{"id":2811,"date":"2008-10-07T15:40:05","date_gmt":"2008-10-07T19:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/?p=2811"},"modified":"2008-10-07T15:40:05","modified_gmt":"2008-10-07T19:40:05","slug":"your-intellectual-property-tastes-delicious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/10\/07\/your-intellectual-property-tastes-delicious\/","title":{"rendered":"Your intellectual property tastes delicious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This has to be my favourite intellectual property dispute ever: according to reports from a variety of sources, including <a href=\"http:\/\/ap.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5j2dJuKp-GFPwa53Et7lzY1az5kMQD93LQ10O0\">Associated Press<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/hasen\/spages\/1027016.html\">Haaretz<\/a>, a group known as the Association of Lebanese Industrialists is planning to file a lawsuit against the state of Israel for &#8220;stealing&#8221; traditional Lebanese delicacies such as hummus (which is spelled about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hummus\">seven different ways<\/a>) as well as baba gannouj, falafels and tabouleh. <\/p>\n<p>As it turns out, of course, Lebanon <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/babylonbeyond\/2008\/10\/lebanon-launchi.html\">doesn&#8217;t actually own<\/a> the trademark to such dishes, but the head of the ALI says he&#8217;s planning to file something, and once he gets the rights he&#8217;s going to sue someone (it&#8217;s not clear who). The precedent, apparently, is the case that Greece launched to get the exclusive EU rights to the term &#8220;feta&#8221; cheese. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/ap\/2008\/10\/07\/news\/ML-Lebanon-Israel-Hummus-Lawsuit.php\">The only wrinkle<\/a> in the Lebanese plan? A number of other groups &#8212; including the Palestinians &#8212; claim they invented the dishes Lebanon wants to trademark (The Guardian <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2008\/oct\/07\/israelandthepalestinians.lebanon\">says that<\/a> tabouleh was developed in Ottoman Syria, including what is now Syria, Palestine, Lebanon and Jordan). Can&#8217;t they all just sit down and talk this one over?<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has to be my favourite intellectual property dispute ever: according to reports from a variety of sources, including Associated Press and Haaretz, a group known as the Association of Lebanese Industrialists is planning to file a lawsuit against the state of Israel for &#8220;stealing&#8221; traditional Lebanese delicacies such as hummus (which is spelled about &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/10\/07\/your-intellectual-property-tastes-delicious\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Your intellectual property tastes delicious&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}