Jamaica Blue Mountain coffee, Blue Montain

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Blue Montain and Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee is 2 different term as well as usage. Blue Mountain seems to be too generic in usage. Some of impersonators use term “Blue Mountain” so that they can take advantage with the popularity of Jamaica Blue Mountain coffee.

Coffee regulator in Jamaica, the Coffee Industry Board (CIB), will register and make Blue Mountain patent under a new legal method related to Jamaica’s geography having mostly failed to register it as a trademark.
Jamaica Blue Mountain is a registered trademark, but Blue Mountain is too generic to register as a trademark.

“Kenya and Ethiopia are using the name ‘Blue Mountain’. In using the name ‘Blue Mountain’ Kenya says that they used their first coffee plant from Jamaica. They have taken advantage of our uniqueness and brand,” said Stacian Bennett, CIB legal officer and Board Secretary speaking to the Observer. “We will explore the possibility of registering the name ‘Blue Mountain’ as a Geographic Indication (GI) so that the current ambiguity may be resolved.”

We can be more understand, probably, if we see what wiki wrote:

Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee is a classification of coffee grown in the Blue Mountains of Jamaica. Over the last several decades, this coffee has developed a reputation that has made it one of the most expensive and sought-after coffees in the world.Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee is a globally protected certification mark meaning that only coffee certified by the Coffee Industry Board of Jamaica can be labeled as such. It comes from a recognized growing region in the Blue Mountain region of Jamaica and its cultivation is monitored by the Coffee Industry Board of Jamaica.

The Blue Mountains are generally located between Kingston to the south and Port Maria to the north.

Popularity: 9% [?]

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October 12, 2008 | Filed Under coffee 

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2 Responses to “Jamaica Blue Mountain coffee, Blue Montain”

  1. jamaicabluemountaincoffee.com on January 11th, 2009 6:53 pm

    Registering the geographic mark is a very good idea who’s time has finally come.

  2. adhe on January 13th, 2009 7:04 am

    this type of coffee is a legend. No doubt that

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