{"id":395144,"date":"2026-04-24T08:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T08:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/395144\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T08:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T08:46:09","slug":"a2-milk-wins-australian-court-fight-over-care-a2-trade-mark-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/395144\/","title":{"rendered":"A2 Milk wins Australian court fight over Care A2+ trade mark dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cOur action reflects a2MC\u2019s [a2 Milk Company\u2019s] commitment to protect its intellectual property, including our a2 trade mark, with vigour,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">A2 Milk products use A1 beta-casein protein-free milk as the milk source, as opposed to standard milk, which contains both the A1 and A2 beta proteins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">In 2022, a2 Milk filed a statement of claim in the Federal Court of New South Wales against Care A2 Plus, alleging trademark infringements.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">In turn, Care A2 had challenged the validity of a2 milk\u2019s trade mark registrations and had sought to cancel, rectify or limit its five registered trade marks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">Jamie Gray is an Auckland-based journalist, covering the financial markets, the primary sector and energy. He joined the Herald in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Stay ahead with the latest market moves, corporate updates, and economic insights by subscribing to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/my-account\/profile\/newsletters\/?from=cmp\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/my-account\/profile\/newsletters\/?from=cmp\">Business newsletter<\/a> \u2013 your essential weekly round-up of all the business news you need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cOur action reflects a2MC\u2019s [a2 Milk Company\u2019s] commitment to protect its intellectual property, including our a2 trade mark,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[19331,85,1135,24812,138,536,1349,14134,13731,14051,15124,204230,32573,19332,111,139,69,1523,312,1361,584,204229,9880,6202],"class_list":["post-395144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-a2","tag-australia","tag-australian","tag-australias","tag-business","tag-care","tag-court","tag-decision","tag-dispute","tag-federal","tag-fight","tag-infringed","tag-mark","tag-milk","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-over","tag-says","tag-that","tag-trade","tag-validated","tag-view","tag-wins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}