Mars fails in Bounty trademark bid
The Bounty confection is just another chocolate bar, according to European judges who dismissed a bid by Mars to register the shape of the bar as a trademark.”The allegedly distinctive characteristics, namely the rounded ends of the bar and the three arrows or chevrons on top of it, cannot be sufficiently distinguished from other shapes commonly used for chocolate bars,” the European Court of First Instance in Luxembourg explained. “(Bounty is) devoid of any distinctive character... ...Read more »




