GRANA PADANO CHEESEMAKERS WIN PROTECTION OF THEIR TRADEMARK AT EUROPEAN COURT OF JUSTICE
August 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALL
IN a case with legal consequences for food trademarks sporting commonly-used words, the European Court of Justice's Court of First Instance has ruled that the word 'Grana' should be protected as part of the origin designation 'Grana Padano'. 'Grana' is Italian for granular or hard cheeses, such as Parmesan and Grana Padano, and the European Union's Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) had earlier ruled the word generic and so available for other cheese producers. This followed Italian cheese producer Biraghi ...
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