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18 May 2017Trademarks

KitKat TM loss may be beginning of EU and UK divergence

Nestlé lost its appeal yesterday against the trademark rejection of the 3D shape of its four-finger KitKat chocolate bar, potentially marking the beginning of a divergence between EU and UK law.

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19 April 2018   An advocate-general at the Court of Justice of the European Union has said that the European Union Intellectual Property Office must re-examine whether Nestlé’s four-finger KitKat shape may be maintained as an EU trademark.