CANADIAN DISTILLERY DEFEATS SCOTCH MONOLITH IN ‘BATTLE OF THE GLENS’
June 1st, 2009
BY KEITH NUTHALL and MONICA DOBIE
CANADIAN single malt whisky producer Glenora Distillers is celebrating victory in its long legal battle with the Scotch Whisky Association (SWA) over its trademark 'Glen Breton'. Canada's Supreme Court yesterday (June 11) rejected a SWA application to appeal against a lower court ruling allowing Glenora rights to the name. The Scotch association argued using 'Glen' fooled consumers into thinking the whisky was Scottish: it is distilled in Cape Breton, an eastern Canada region heavily settled by forced immigrants from Scotland's ...
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