Successful Trademark Challenge to “Bach Flower Remedies”
Posted by admin on Apr 11, 2009
Editors’ Note: Continuing on our theme of “The Wide, Weird, Wonderful Web,” we are bringing news we got word of via the Internet.
Many of us were taught never to write the term “Bach Flower Remedies” on a dosage bottle because it would be a violation of someone’s trademark to do so. Well, this may not actually be the case.
Julian Barnard of Healing Herbs, maker of the absolutely lovely Bach Flower Remedies put out under that label’s name, has been challenging Nelson Bach’s trademark to the term “Bach Flower Remedies” for a couple of decades now. Late last year we found out both via email and by Googling around for additional information that Julian prevailed in his challenge in both the United Kingdom and the European Union Courts.
The trademark issue has remained unchanged (as far as we know) for the US.
According to the CrystalHerbs.com website, “[t]he result means that all of those many people across the European Union, who use the terms Bach and Bach Flower Remedies to describe their own or other people’s flower remedies made in accordance with the original directions of the late Dr Edward Bach can do so freely.”
We are pleased at this result, because we at Vibration Magazine feel that Bach’s work is part both ancient knowledge, and of an entire body of new work that came about with and after him. This court victory brings us one step closer to alignment with the universality of flower essences across cultures around the world.
I am so happy to hear this result and to know that the Father of Flower Essences may be appropriately quoted for the “evolution” he started. What a divine domino effect his work has had on healing the world!
This is remarkable ruling. We can rightfully use HIS name now. Thank you for letting us know
While I’ve been distressed about the controversy over ‘ownership’ of the Bach essences, perhaps one of the values of holding back is that it has forced each of us as producers to stand in our own authority! Still, I suspect that Edward Bach would have wanted us to carry on developing our own relationship with the plant kingdom, which is exactly what has occurred particularly in the last twenty years, in a way that both honors and expands his initial work.
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