Mick Hartley

Der Spiegel quote the findings of the European Union trademarks authority, who've given the OK on the naming of a proposed new light ale:

"The word combination claimed contains no semantic indication that could refer to a certain person or group of persons. Nor does it incite a particular act….

Nor can it be considered as reprehensible to use existing place names in a targeted manner (as a reference to the place), merely because this may have an ambiguous meaning in other languages."

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