SHAMROCK SYMBOL
‘No Monopoly By Ireland 9
(Special Crtpdt. NZ.P.A.)
, LONDON, October 11. An English High Court judge said this week that Ireland had “no monopoly of Clover leaves or trefoils.” Mr Justice Cross was rejecting opposition by the Minister for Industry and Commerce of the Irish Republic to the registration of a trade mark bearing a trefoil for the German Grundig Company. The Minister claimed that the trefoil was a shamrock and could lead people to believe that the goods concerned were made in Ireland or had Irish connections. The word “shamrock” was derived from the Gaelic name for a species of clover. The trefoil used in . the Grundig trade mart had been on the arms of the Barvarian town of Furth for more than 400 years. Grundig had used the trefoil mark since 1953.
The Minister’s appeal was dismissed.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31500, 14 October 1967, Page 26
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