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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8106

6 December 2001
Contents Publication in full By article 24 / 44
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/court of justice
For Advocate General Ruiz-Jarabo Colomer, an odour may not constitute a brand - Court deliberates

Luxembourg, 05/12/2001 (Agence Europe) - The European Court of Justice has to decide whether an odour may be the subject of a brand, which its Advocate General Ruiz-Jarabo Colomer disputes in his conclusions in the Sieckmann case. "At present, odours are not susceptible of being the subject of an adequate graphic representation and may not constitute a brand", says Damaso Ruiz-Jarabo Colomer in his conclusions in which Proust and Baudelaire rub shoulders with Freud, Plato and Aristotle.

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