Patent Law

Nipped in the Bud

By Gary Odom and Jordan Kuhn

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.

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Full post as published by The Patent Prospector on December 17, 2008 (boomark / email).