Harris Tweed the trade mark should have been granted exclusively to Harris, the Orb Trade Mark was granted. The Harris Tweed Association, a voluntary body, was formed to protect both the use of the Orb Trade Mark and to protect the use of the name ‘Harris Tweed’ from imitations. The original definition attached to the Orb Trade Mark stated that: Harris Tweed means a tweed, hand-spun, hand-woven and dyed by the crofters and cottars in the Outer Hebrides. In 1993, a new statutory body to guard the Orb Trade Mark, the Harris Tweed Authority, replaced the original Harris Tweed Association. Also in
The Orb "Orblivion" and "Cydonia". In late 2008 a double-cd compilation of BBC Radio 1 sessions called "The Orb: Complete BBC Sessions 1989-2001" was released. In May 2009, the British Malicious Damage Records (run by the members of Killing Joke) announced the release of the Orb's ninth regular studio album "Baghdad Batteries (Orbsessions Volume III)" on 11 September 2009. A reunification of Paterson and long-term collaborator Thomas Fehlmann who last worked together on "Okie Dokie It's the Orb on Kompakt", the album was promoted with a launch party with Paterson and Fehlmann performing the whole album live at The-Situation Modern in Clapham,