29 July 2010

No Budweiser CTM for Anheuser-Busch, says CJ

Emma Barraclough, London

US brewery Anheuser-Busch has failed in its last-ditch attempt to register Budweiser as a Community trade mark

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJ) today dismissed the company’s appeal against a decision by the General Court (formerly the Court of First Instance) in March, in which it ruled that rival beer maker Budejovický Budvar already held the right to use the word Budweiser for beer in Germany and Austria.

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