BUD v AMERICAN BUD - the ECJ rules once more - EU regulation 'preempts' national protection of Designations of Origin

摘要

The Czech company Budejovicky Budpar brews beer in what was called, in German, 'Budweis', hence the German adjective 'Budweisef, ie, 'from Budweis'. The American company Anheuser-Busch, located" in St Louis, Missouri, a subsidiary of Anheuser-Busch InBev, has produced the world-famous 'Budweiser' in the US since the 19th,century. The conflict between the Czechs and the Americans over the use of BUDWEISER or its derivative BUD has occupied the courts in many countries in Europe and elsewhere, even including the European Court of Human Rights (which concluded that trademark applications are 'property').