Jump directly to the Content

News&Reporting

Seventh-Day Adventists Lose "Granola" Trademark Fight in Australia

Cereal company owned by denomination trademarked the word in 1921; federal judge says it's too commonplace now.
|

Sanitarium Foods, a cereal company owned by the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Australia, has lost its two-year legal battle to keep Australian bakeries, restaurants, and grocery stores from using the word "granola."

The denomination trademarked "granola" as an "invented word" in 1921; this week, a federal judge disagreed, saying the word can be "easily found in dictionaries," reports Adventist Today.

The Adventist church plans to keep defending its intellectual property.

March
Support Our Work

Subscribe to CT for less than $4.25/month

Read These Next

close