BEAM WINS WAX ROW

摘要

Beam Inc has welcomed a ruling by an appeals court in the US upholding its red wax trademark for the Maker's Mark Bourbon brand.The US Court of Appeals for the sixth Circuit upheld a US District Court ruling from 2010, protecting the registered trademark for Maker's Mark's dripping red wax seal. The ruling reiterated the decision by the District Court that forbade Jose Cuervo International, its affiliates and Cuervo's US distributor Diageo North America from the use of a dripping red wax seal on any Cuervo Tequila product.