The taste of a foodstuff, such as spreadable cheese, cannot be protected under copyright, according to Advocate General Melchior Wathelet in the conclusions he returned to the Court of Justice of the EU on 25 July in case C-310/17.
The Court was asked for a preliminary ruling by the Court of Appeal of Arnhem-Leeuwarden (Netherlands). The main proceedings were between two Dutch companies: firstly, Levola, which has owned the intellectual property rights to the spreadable cheese with crème...