19 April 2018Trademarks

EUIPO must re-examine KitKat shape, says AG

An advocate-general (AG) at the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has said that the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) must re-examine whether Nestlé’s four-finger KitKat shape may be maintained as an EU trademark.

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