No Budweiser CTM for Anheuser-Busch, says CJ
29 July 2010
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.
The decision upheld a ruling made by OHIM two years earlier.
The case brought before Europe’s top court turned on a legal question related to...
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