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The ECJ issued an opinion on Tuesday stating that that the planned European and Community Patent Court "would alter the essential character of the powers conferred on the institutions of the European Union and on the Member States
With Easter almost upon us, supermarkets and confectioners are full of chocolate in various seasonal forms but the Lindt Easter bunny is guaranteed to stand out from the crowd, at least in Austria
Persuading all 27 member states of the EU to adopt a single European patent system (whereby patents would only be issued in the three main official languages of the EU - English, French and German) has proved impossible so far
8 years after their original application to register their chocolate bunny as a three dimensional trademark, the ECJ has finally ruled against Lindt in C-9811 P Chocoladefabriken Lindt & Spruengli v OHIM
