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 generally regarded by the British press as past their prime and an "ambient dinosaur" out of place in the current dance music environment. After the release of "Cydonia", Hughes left the group for undisclosed reasons, becoming "another acrimonious departure from the Orb" according to "The Guardian". In 2001, Alex Paterson formed the record label Badorb.com as an outlet for Orb members' side projects. To promote both Badorb.com and "Cydonia", the Orb toured internationally, including their first visit to the United States in four years. "NME" described the Orb's tour as "charming" and that they were "freed from the Floydian pretensions