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Nestle Loses Bid to Trademark KitKat Shape

By February 27, 2016 No Comments

London: Nestle has lost a long-running court battle to trademark the four-finger shape of its KitKat chocolate bar in Britain.

The food giant first tried to register the trademark in 2010, but the application was opposed by rival chocolate maker Cadbury UK Ltd.

The case was previously dismissed by other courts including the European Court of Justice. Britain’s High Court on Wednesday upheld those decisions, ruling that the shape of a KitKat bar has not “acquired a distinctive character” enough to satisfy trademark requirements.

Read more about this at NDTV Profit (UK).

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