How do you register Alkaline as a trademark?
this post was submitted on 29 Dec 2024
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Probably in a similar way that Apple is a registered trademark for computers, but you wouldn't be able to register it for fruit. Alkaline here may not even be an actual characteristic of the product, or assuming it is, it's supposedly so distinctive that it sets the brand apart from others.
That said, it's very unlikely that the trademark could be defended if a competitor challenged it, but maybe the goal is just to use the ® as a gimmick, to increase the perceived value by the customer, and if it became commonplace they'd just come up with some other marketing strategy...
UPS has registered the colour brown as a trademark
Maybe it's "the FIRST and ONLY Alkaline" that's the trademark?
If that's the name they're giving thier original recipe it's a trademark.
Could they trademark "Acidic"? And then claim "Our Lemonade is the only Acidic® lemonade on the market!"
Apparently
It's not really a joke in my part of the country in Canada. I'm Indigenous Canadian and my dad was born in the wilderness and followed a traditional lifestyle. He was a traditional hunter and trapper.
In the 1950s and 1960s he trapped a lot of beaver to sell the pelts and make a living. This was all before the animal fur market collapsed in the 70s. I wasn't born at the time but I remember him telling me that they ate a lot of the beaver he trapped. He trapped so much that he had a surplus of beaver meat all the time. However, he also kept a team of sled dogs which he fed a steady diet of beaver boiled with oats to give them a very nutritious food. We have one or two surviving photos of his dogs and they were huge. They weren't classic Malamutes or Huskies .. they were just random mutts that looked like a cross between a German Shepherd and Husky ... but they were huge powerful dogs.
There's some dogs that absolutely require a weird diet. I forgot the breed I read about but they're sled/hunting dogs a very cold climate (somewhere in Asia)? They are so adapted to that environment they WILL die if given "normal" dog food.
I forgot the bread I read about
Don't feed dogs bread!
Oops, fixed
It's recommended if you're adopting a northern rescue that you feed them lower quality dog food, at least at first, because high quality is too rich for them.
https://www.ifaw.org/ca-en/projects/northern-dogs-project-canada
Seems like a similar breed to the one I read about. Where does it talk about food in here? I couldn't find it
I'm sorry- I shared the link to give an idea of what I meant by northern rescue. Near me they also get called "designer dogs" as a joke- they're basically all mutts. They wander the streets and kind of beg for scraps and eat out of garbages, hence why the shift to a high quality dog food is not recommended. When we adopted ours they shared a care plan that included how to introduce a higher quality dog food, but that was several years ago now and I don't have it anymore.
They get exported as pets to areas that can keep them as an alternative to getting culled en masse like they used to. Animal welfare organisations also arrange for neuter clinics to help keep the population down.
Dog tax:
That’s really interesting- thanks for sharing!
Is this your dad?
That's pretty much historically accurate. Lol
Now I'm looking forward to something in 2025. Thanks for this. This is beautiful.
Just your basic beaver.
You gotta watch out for Imaginary Beaver.
Hey, imaginary beaver has gotten a lot of people through some tough times.
The market's flooded with cheap and dangerous lab-produced Castorinyl.
It's for Catholic dogs on Fridays, duh
For those unaware of history, Catholics believe that Beaver is classified as a fish on the Fridays where they’re only allowed to eat fish. The reason is because God said so, it’s not made up and arbitrary at all.
I understand that beaver butts are used in many luxory products; even more so than whale barf!
Vanilla flavour?!? again??
Unfortunately, I get this reference
Wonder how much that stomach acid cares about the Alkaline^®^ topper.
Yup! Someone gave me the canned buffalo when I was a kid, and I loved it! I gave my nephew the canned alligator. I hope he loves it too.
What's that smell? Someone just open a can of beaver in here?
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Maybe it's nutria? They're invasive and Louisiana incentives people to hunt them. Maybe that's what it is? Very beaver like. Lol
Real Beaver