Lindt loses third round of chocolate bunny battle

Swiss chocolate manufacturer Lindt & Spruengli has lost its latest appeal in the decade-long legal case with German Confiserie Riegelein.

Lindt launched the legal process in 2002, alleging that Riegelein’s gold-wrapped chocolate Easter bunny looked similar to the company’s own product. However, the Frankfurt Court of Appeal court has confirmed the judgements from 2004 and 2007 that the Lindt bunny’s little red collar and real bell made it quite different from Riegelein’s smaller product, which only has a brown collar printed on the foil.

“We are delighted that the judges have remained at their previous decisions,” says Peter Riegelein. However, a court spokesman said after the verdict, “Of course they can take this to the supreme court if they want.”

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