As the flavour of a food product cannot be qualified as a "work", it cannot benefit from copyright protection, the EU Court of Justice ruled in a judgment delivered on Tuesday 13 November (Case C-310/17).
In the Netherlands, Levola, which since 2011 has held the intellectual property rights to the Heksenkaas fresh cream and herbal spread cheese, has brought an action before the Dutch courts to prohibit the marketing of Witte Wievenkaas, a spread cheese produced by Smilde, on the...