Westlife cant register name
Publish date: 12 May 2005
Issue Number: 1333
Diary: Legalbrief Today
Category: Trademark
The European Court of First Instance in Luxembourg has rejected a bid by Irish boy band Westlife to register their name as an EU trademark.
The Scotsman reports the judges ruled Westlife was too similar to the word West, which has been trademarked by a German tobacco firm and they said the fact that Germans say vest and not west would not lessen the possible confusion. The court said the similarity was enough to confuse the average German consumer. Full report in The Scotsman
