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Czech Brewery Retains Right to Use 'Budweiser' and 'Bud' Trademarks.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, February, 2003
By Gregory Cancelada, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Feb. 17--Anheuser-Busch Cos. lost its latest legal effort to prevent a Czech rival from using "Budweiser Budbrau" and "Bud" in the United Kingdom, although the decision won't affect A-B's operations there.
A ruling on Monday by the House of Lords, the country's highest civil court, ends legal action by A-B to revoke these two trademarks owned by Czech competitor Budejovicky Budvar.
In the mid-1990s, A-B asked the U.K. Patent Office to revoke Budvar's trademark registration of these two names, alleging that the Czech brewer had allowed the trademark to lapse due to non-use. Although the Patent Office decided that no lapse occurred, A-B has been appealing...
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