On Thursday 7 June, the Court clarified EU law on geographical indications for spirit drinks in the framework of a dispute against the German whisky Glen Buchenbach (case C-44/17).
The word ‘glen’, a word of Gaelic origin, means ‘narrow valley’, and 31 of the 116 distilleries that produce Scotch whisky bear the name of the glen in which they are located. There are also whiskies produced outside Scotland which include the word glen in their name (Glen Breton in Canada, Glendalough in...