{"id":1188,"date":"2024-06-05T20:26:51","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T20:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/mcdonalds-loses-big-mac-trademark-case-in-eu-dispute-over-chicken-burgers\/"},"modified":"2024-06-10T17:54:46","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T17:54:46","slug":"mcdonalds-loses-big-mac-trademark-case-in-eu-dispute-over-chicken-burgers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/mcdonalds-loses-big-mac-trademark-case-in-eu-dispute-over-chicken-burgers\/","title":{"rendered":"McDonald\u2019s Loses &#8216;Big Mac&#8217; Trademark Case in EU Dispute Over Chicken Burgers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>McDonald\u2019s has lost its right to call its chicken sandwiches a \u201cBig Mac\u201d in the European Union after a <a href=\"https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/juris\/document\/document.jsf;jsessionid=B0C745A004423746959774A816FE5E8B?text=&amp;docid=286812&amp;pageIndex=0&amp;doclang=en&amp;mode=req&amp;dir=&amp;occ=first&amp;part=1&amp;cid=9399773\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ruling<\/a> by the EU\u2019s second-highest court on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">McDonald\u2019s has been in a long-running dispute with its Irish rival Supermac\u2019s over whether its Big Mac trademark applies to chicken products and various fast-food services. The Luxembourg-based EU General Court\u2014a constituent court of the Court of Justice of the European Union\u2014ruled that it does not, handing a partial win to Supermac\u2019s, a Galway-based fast-food chain with aspirations to expand to continental Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McDonald\u2019s has lost its right to call its chicken sandwiches a \u201cBig Mac\u201d in the European Union after a ruling by the EU\u2019s second-highest court on Wednesday. McDonald\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1740,434,1760,1664,294,1731,1663,1743,1739,1737,1746,323,1742,1741,1767,1747,1745,1748,1759,1736,1732,1733,1735,1734,1318,1662,731,35,1738,1744,1005],"class_list":["post-1188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-bar-association-news","tag-big","tag-breaking-news-updates","tag-burgers","tag-case","tag-case-law-analysis","tag-chicken","tag-civil-rights-cases","tag-corporate-law-news","tag-court-rulings","tag-criminal-law-updates","tag-dispute","tag-employment-law-updates","tag-environmental-law-news","tag-eu-dispute-over-chicken-burgers","tag-family-law-cases","tag-immigration-law-updates","tag-intellectual-property-law-developments","tag-latest-law-updates","tag-legal-ethics","tag-legal-precedents","tag-legal-reforms","tag-legal-technology-advancements-legal-education-updates","tag-legislation-updates","tag-loses","tag-mac","tag-mcdonalds","tag-personal-injury-cases","tag-supreme-court-decisions","tag-tax-law-changes","tag-trademark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1261,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions\/1261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}