{"id":125,"date":"2007-01-11T19:12:24","date_gmt":"2007-01-12T02:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.journals.law.harvard.edu\/ilj\/digest\/archives\/125"},"modified":"2011-03-22T13:51:54","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T17:51:54","slug":"ecthr-on-trade-mark-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/ilj\/2007\/01\/ecthr-on-trade-mark-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"ECtHR on Trademark Protection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On January 11, the ECtHR held in <em>Anheuser-Busch Inc. v. Portugal<\/em><strong><em> <\/em><\/strong>that there had been no violation of Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 (protection of property). The applicant, an American beer producer, had applied in 1981 to Portuguese authorities in order to register \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Budweiser\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as a trade mark. 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