Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice Advance Access originally published online on January 12, 2007
Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice 2007 2(2):67-69; doi:10.1093/jiplp/jpl217
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CFI decision leaves Bitte taste for Bitburger
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Bitburger Brauerei Th. Simon GmbH v OHIM, Joined Cases T-350/04 to T-352/04, Court of First Instance (Fifth Chamber), 19 October 2006
Bitburger's over-reliance on its brand strength and lack of substantive evidence of similarities between its own marks and the contested marks meant that it failed again to prevent Anheuser-Busch selling its beer under the name Bud in Germany.