General Court: Board of Appeal erred in assessing distinctiveness of ULTRA for beer

General Court: Board of Appeal erred in assessing distinctiveness of ULTRA for beer
European Union

In this dispute between competing breweries Anheuser-Busch and Amstel, the court found that ‘ultra’ was a generic, laudatory term which was incapable of differentiating the commercial origin of the goods.

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