An Australian company is claiming the word "Freekeh" as a trademark.

See

http://www.greenwheatfreekeh.com.au/gwfabout.htm

and associated links.

My guess is that the word 'Freekeh', for dried green wheat, goes way
back in time and I would have thought it impossible to register it as
a trademark - anymore than somebody could register the word "beans".

Certainly other users of the word don't acknowledge it as a trademark,
for example on the web:

http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/pe...ticleID=109426

and in print "A cook’s guide to grains" by Jenni Muir.

The Oxford English Dictionary doesn't give the word. Does anybody know
something of its history?