BUDVAR PUSHED TO LODGE EU GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATION APPLICATION BY ECJ JUDGE
February 1st, 2009
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) appears to be encouraging Czech brewery Bud?jovický Budvar to lodge a European Union (EU)-wide application for geographical indication protection for their beer. In a preliminary ruling, ECJ advocate general Dámaso Ruiz-Jarabo Colomer said a previous bilateral agreement between Austria and the former Czechoslovakia which said beers called 'Bud' must be Czech may offer no protection, unless Budvar also applied for EU-wide protection: "A name...which has not been notified to the Commission cannot obtain ...
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