ECJ RULES ON LEMON LIQUOR TRADEMARK BATTLE
March 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALLA EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) advocate general has requested that a long-running case over the European Union (EU)-wide registration of a 'lemoncello' lemon peel liquor trademark should be returned to the ECJ's Court of First Instance. Its judges have already overturned a decision by the EU trademark regulator the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) to refuse the registration of Italy's Shaker di L. Laudato & Cs' visual lemoncello trademark based on the names 'Limoncello della Costiera Amalfitana' and ...
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