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December 16, 2008
Nipped in the Bud
Anheuser-Busch
settled a lawsuit brought by a Quebec company asserting
6,852,191, claiming a double-sided label technology. The only comment on the
settlement from a relieved A-B attorney was "mutually agreeable terms," and
perhaps a mumbled "it's Miller time."
In a more famous spat over trademark, ongoing since 1906, with Czech brewer Budejovicky Budvar, a European High Court on Tuesday rejected A-B's bid for trademarking "Bud" beer in Europe, overturning the EU trademark agency, which had rejected Budvar's earlier rights to the trademark in member states.
Posted by Patent Hawk at December 16, 2008 11:52 PM | Litigation