Tag: Law
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Donoghue v Stevenson 1932 UKHL 100
The snail and the ginger beer case. In 1928, Mrs Donoghue (the Plantiff) went to a cafe in Scotland and with her friend. Mrs Donoghue drank a bottle of ginger beer manufactured by Stevenson. Friend bought the drink from a retailer and gave it to Mrs Donoghue. The bottle however…
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3D Printed Ivory Substitute Thwarts Black-Market
“[Pembient], a startup based in San Francisco, plans to flood the Chinese market with the synthetic horns which carry the same genetic fingerprint as the real thing.” (Ward, 2015) A 3D printed ivory works as a substitute good to wild ivory, competing on low-cost and better quality to thwart the…