Suzuki GTI: Volkswagen loses legal battle to stop Japanese firm using its trademark name
By GRAHAM SMITH
PUBLISHED: 16:29 GMT, 21 March 2012 | UPDATED: 18:40 GMT, 21 March 2012
Volkswagen has lost its legal battle to prevent Suzuki from using the familiar 'GTI' tag on one of its cars.
The German firm appealed when the European Union’s OHIM trademark office rejected its complaint that the Swift GTi name that Suzuki wanted to register would cause confusion with the celebrated Golf GTI.
But today’s ruling from the European Court of Justice backed the OHIM in declaring that the public would not be confused - particularly as car makers including Rover, Peugeot, Citroen, Nissan, Mitsubishi, and Toyota have all used the term GTI on some models.
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Vw i Suzuki formiraa alijanca, i Vw mu pusti tuzba na partnerot za imeto, za koe patem ne poseduva nikakvo pravo. Ova ne e prvpat Vw da tuzi i gubi vo spor za ime. Pred nekolku godini izgubi sudska bitka za imeto TDI, za koe isto taka ne poseduva pravo na sopstvenost.