CANADA COURT RULES CANADIAN SINGLE MALT MUST DROP ‘GLEN’ NAME IN BRANDING
April 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A CANADIAN court has ruled that Canada's only single malt whisky producer cannot use 'Glen' in its brand title 'Glen Breton', because it makes the drink appear it was made in Scotland. In reality, its distillery is in eastern Canada's Cape Breton, a region heavily populated by victims of the Nineteenth Century's Highland Clearances in northern Scotland. However, these links did not sway the Federal Court of Canada's Justice Sean Harrington, who blocked a 'Glen Breton' trademark application: "Scotch whiskies, particularly the single malts, ...
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