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{{a|people|}}Not a lawyer, even in Holland, unless she has got so far through the booze cabinet that all is left is egg brandy | {{a|people|}}Not a lawyer, even in Holland, unless she has got so far through the booze cabinet that all is left is egg brandy. | ||
Once upon a time — in fairness, it ''was'' the seventies — it was so popular in | [[Advocaat]] is a dun-coloured dutch liqueur made from a blend of hen egg yolks, aromatic spirits, sugar, and brandy. You might think a mildly alcoholic drink that looked like puss would be something you’d try once, in the nineteen seventies, in Amsterdam, and would now exist only in nostalgia shows, but somehow it has survived and you can buy it, even in Tesco, to this very day. | ||
Once upon a time — in fairness, it ''was'' the seventies — it was so popular in Yorkshire that it generated litigation so powerful that it developed the modern law of [[passing off|passing <strike>wind</strike>off]]. | |||
In {{cite|Erven Warnink BV v J Townend & Sons (Hull) Ltd|1979|AC|731}}, Townend, from Hull, basically ripped off [[Advocaat]] creating a tipple he called “Keeling’s Old English Advocaat”,<ref>If he’d called it “Keeling’s Old English ''Advocate''” (a) he might have got away with it, and (b) might have shifted a few units to people mistaking it for some kind of microbrewed beer. I rather like the sound of a pint of Keeling’s Old English Advocate, and sorely regret there isn’t one to be had.</ref> only using normal eggs and Cyprus wine. Now if you are like me you will have just executed a double take, for if common sense and logic was the sole determinant of the market’s direction, surely Mr Townend would, now, be the sort of fellow whose fate [[survivor bias]] fails to take account, and the world would be still slightly muddled about the limits of a [[passing off]] action. | In {{cite|Erven Warnink BV v J Townend & Sons (Hull) Ltd|1979|AC|731}}, Townend, from Hull, basically ripped off [[Advocaat]] creating a tipple he called “Keeling’s Old English Advocaat”,<ref>If he’d called it “Keeling’s Old English ''Advocate''” (a) he might have got away with it, and (b) might have shifted a few units to people mistaking it for some kind of microbrewed beer. I rather like the sound of a pint of Keeling’s Old English Advocate, and sorely regret there isn’t one to be had.</ref> only using normal eggs and Cyprus wine. Now if you are like me you will have just executed a double take, for if common sense and logic was the sole determinant of the market’s direction, surely Mr Townend would, now, be the sort of fellow whose fate [[survivor bias]] fails to take account, and the world would be still slightly muddled about the limits of a [[passing off]] action. | ||
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This has subsequently been simplified a bit, but not in amusing circumstances, so if you want to know more about that, you’ll have to Google it. {{cite|Reckitt & Colman Products Ltd|Borden|1990|1AllER|893}} | This has subsequently been simplified a bit, but not in amusing circumstances, so if you want to know more about that, you’ll have to Google it. {{cite|Reckitt & Colman Products Ltd|Borden|1990|1AllER|893}} | ||
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*[[Avocat à la cour]] | |||
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