Court rules against Philips in long-running product trademark battle with Remington

In a landmark judgment on 18 June 2002 the European Court of Justice ruled that the shape of a product cannot be used as a trademark if that shape is essential to the way the product works.

http://curia.europa.eu/en/actu/communiques/cp02/aff/cp0255en.htm http://curia.europa.eu/en/actu/communiques/cp02/aff/cp0255en.htm

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