{"id":657,"date":"2022-10-05T15:25:37","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T13:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugnion.ch\/?p=657"},"modified":"2023-01-17T14:57:12","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T13:57:12","slug":"swiss-federal-supreme-court-a-well-known-rabbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugnion.ch\/en\/swiss-federal-supreme-court-a-well-known-rabbit\/","title":{"rendered":"SWISS FEDERAL SUPREME COURT &#8211; A WELL-KNOWN RABBIT&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a decision issued on August 30, 2022, the Swiss Federal Supreme Court ruled that Lindt &amp; Spr\u00fcngli&#8217;s rabbit could benefit from trademark protection as a three-dimensional mark, because it has &#8220;acquired general public awareness and the registered shape marks have thus become established in the market. The Federal Supreme Court then considered that the &#8220;obvious associations&#8221; in the mind of the public between Lindt &amp; Spr\u00fcngli&#8217;s rabbits and Lidl&#8217;s rabbits lead to a risk of confusion. The Supreme Court therefore granted Lindt &amp; Spr\u00fcngli&#8217;s request to prohibit Lidl from marketing the disputed rabbits and to destroy those still in stock.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">To know more about it:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bger.ch\/files\/live\/sites\/bger\/files\/pdf\/fr\/4a_0587_2021_2022_09_29_T_f_09_39_42.pdf\">Communiqu\u00e9 de presse du Tribunal f\u00e9d\u00e9ral du 29.09.2022\/Dossier no 211.1\/29_2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bger.ch\/ext\/eurospider\/live\/fr\/php\/aza\/http\/index.php?highlight_docid=aza%3A%2F%2Faza:\/\/30-08-2022-4A_587-2021&amp;lang=fr&amp;zoom=&amp;type=show_document\">Tribunal f\u00e9d\u00e9ral 30.08.2022 \/4A-587\/2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a decision issued on August 30, 2022, the Swiss Federal Supreme Court ruled that Lindt &amp; Spr\u00fcngli&#8217;s rabbit could benefit from trademark protection as a three-dimensional mark, because it has &#8220;acquired general public awareness and the registered shape marks have thus become established in the market. The Federal Supreme Court [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugnion.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugnion.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugnion.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugnion.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugnion.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bugnion.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":658,"href":"https:\/\/bugnion.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions\/658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugnion.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}