date:Mar 29, 2013
Swiss premium chocolate maker Lindt Spruengli has lost a court battle to protect its gold foil-wrapped Easter bunnies from imitation by a German rival.
Lindt, which traces its origins to a Zurich confectionery shop set up in the 1840s, has been fighting German chocolate maker Confiserie Riegelein since 2000 to try to stop it producing similar chocolate bunnies.
But Germany's Federal Court of Justice rejected a final appeal by Lindt Spruengli on Thursday.
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