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====Legal problems==== In Jan 2024, [[AcuPips]], another British company which sells ear seeds, revealed that they had taken legal action against Acu Seeds, and had warned the TV producers of Dragon's Den about this prior to the show being broadcast.<ref name="DailyMail-SnakeOil">{{Cite web|url=https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-13000157/dragons-den-snake-oil-salesman-rival-litigation-battle-ear-seeds.html|title='I warned the BBC about Dragons' Den fake but they ignored me'|last=Pearson-Jones|first=Bridie|date=2024-01-24|website=Mail Online|access-date=2024-02-05}}</ref> AcuPips is run by practising [[Traditional Chinese Medicine]] acupuncturist Zoë Young, who stated she had registered AcuPips name as a trademark in 2017, and sold guided ear maps with their ear seeds before the launch of Acu Seeds. Zoë Young of AcuPips stated that she had contacted them and asked them to change their company name because she felt it was too similar to AcuPips, and also because ''acu seeds'' was a generic term already used by acupuncturists to refer to ear seeds.<ref name="FB-25Jan24">{{Citation|title=AcuPips|date=2024-01-24|url=https://www.facebook.com/acupips/posts/unless-youve-been-living-in-a-parallel-universe-or-anywhere-outside-the-uk-youll/876954124435858/|last=Young|first=Zoë|work=Facebook|access-date=2024-02-05|language=en}}</ref> Young stated that she had opposed the attempt by Giselle Boxer to trademark the name AcuSeeds and that its trademark request was refused. Despite selling ear seeds, Young also stated that ear seeds cannot cure M.E. or any other [[chronic illness]], stating it can improve symptoms like anxiety, depression, migraine, [[hot flash]]es and [[sleep dysfunction|sleep]].<ref name="DailyMail-SnakeOil"/>
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