20 July 2022TrademarksSarah Speight

Cadbury's sweet colour victory: a taste of things to come?

In what is seen as a positive step in trademarking colour, Cadbury has triumphed in an appeal originally brought by rival Nestlé over the distinctive ‘Cadbury purple’.

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