The Chilean vineyard Sociedad Anónima Viña Santa Rita won a dispute before the UK patent office regarding its following trademark for class 33 that contains the word PISCO:
The Peruvian IP office objected to this registration claiming that only producers from Peru can use the term PISCO to label their products in particular wine.
According to the Chilean vineyard, this wasn’t the case due to the fact that wine under the same name had been producing in Chily for centuries.
The UKIPO ruled that in the case at hand there was no risk for consumer confusion because it was highly unlikely for them to connect the term PISCO only with Pery. In addition, taking into account the whole mark the likelihood of confusion was even smaller.
Similar disputes between Chile and Pery exist in India and Australia too.
Source: WIPR.
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