LEMONCELLO ROW REFERRED BACK TO JUNIOR ECJ COURT
June 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALLEUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has referred a long-running case over the European Union (EU)-wide registration of a 'lemoncello' lemon peel liquor trademark back to its junior ECJ Court of First Instance. Judges said the junior court had failed to sufficiently consider whether the Italy's Shaker di L. Laudato & Cs' visual lemoncello trademark, based on the names 'Limoncello della Costiera Amalfitana' and 'Shaker', could be confused with Spain's Limiñana y Botella 'limonchelo' drink, because of the similarity of the drinks' names in the ...
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