Luxembourg, 17/01/2000 (Agence Europe) - The European Court of Justice has handed down a decision in a case between the German subsidiaries of two cosmetics multinationals, Estée Lauder and Lancaster. In its judgment in the case Estée Lauder vs Lancaster, it states that the sale of a cosmetic product whose name includes the term "lifting" may be banned when a normally informed and reasonably attentive consumer is led into error by the name.
It will nonetheless be for the national judge to...