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Apr 20, 2010
Jens Triebel, Spamer Triebel Inc., South Africa

South Africa – the wine consumer does not translate, th...


Jens Triebel, Spamer Triebel Inc., South AfricaSouth Africa is a multilingual country with eleven official languages. In theory, and in law, they are all equal. In a recent decision of the South African High Court, the interesting little question arose whether use of the mark LOVANE (meaning “chameleon” in one of the official languages, Xhosa) infringed the registered trade mark rights in CHAMELEON when both marks were used, respectively registered, for wines.  read more