US EditionFirst the "Wurst-Judgment – Now a "without Egg": Veganem Liqueur Threatens Name Ban
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What sounds like a banality has led to a real legal dispute in Germany: May a vegan liqueur be called "Liqueur without eggs"? The regional court of Kiel has now clearly answered this question – yes, it is allowed. The association of the spirits industry wanted to ban the name – and failed with it. The association, whose chairman is the egg liqueur manufacturer William Verpoorten, had argued that the name establishes an inadmissible connection to…
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ndr.deThe Kiel Regional Court has ruled: A lawsuit by the Spirits Association has been dismissed, allowing vegan eggnog to be advertised.
It is a curious dispute: An entrepreneur gives his liqueur without egg the name „Liqueur without egg. This does not want to tolerate a spirits association. The regional court Kiel clearly decides.
End of a bizarre trademark dispute. Landgericht Kiel allows names for vegan spirits. It may be called "Liqueur without egg".
An egg liqueur does not contain an egg without an egg. For this reason, a spirits association went to court against a small company. This was a clear judgment.The "lique without an egg" may retain its name, although it does not contain an egg.This was decided by the Landgericht Kiel in a dispute between the Protective Association of the Spirits Industry and a small producer from the Schleswig-Holstein Henstedt-Ulzburg.Eierlikör formulation was u…
The fact that an egg liqueur contains eggs is clear. But what if a liqueur is not an egg liqueur and also does not contain eggs? Can it be called "a liqueur without eggs"? Judges in Kiel should decide this question.
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