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Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>INNSCOR Africa Limited\u2019s Chicken Inn has won a trademark battle against Slice Distributors (Pvt) Ltd, also trading as Chicken Slice.<\/p>\n

The Supreme Court Friday put an end to the dragging legal dispute ruling that Chicken Slice was indeed infringing on its competitors trademark.<\/p>\n

The ruling follows a successful appeal by Inscor which approached the upper court appealing against a High Court ruling in favour of Chicken Slice.<\/p>\n

The full judgment was not readily available.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, High Court Justice Sylvia Chirawu-Mugomba dismissed Chicken Inn\u2019s application after it filed an application in 2019 seeking an interdict against Chicken Slice for using its trademark, \u2018Luv\u2019 and its colours.<\/p>\n

Chicken Inn took the rivalry with Chicken Slice to court arguing that the latter had used \u2018Luv\u2019 in its burger and grill logo.<\/p>\n

The company also argued it has always used \u2018Luv Dat Chicken\u2019 since 1987 before Chicken Slice started using \u2018I Luv it\u2019 on its burger boxes.<\/p>\n

Chicken Inn submitted that the resemblance of the trademark and colours confuses consumers of their products.<\/p>\n

Chicken Slice rebuffed the accusations arguing that Chicken Inn doesn\u2019t not own exclusive rights to the tagline \u2018luv\u2019.<\/p>\n

In delivering judgement, Justice Sylvia Chirawu-Mugomba said besides the word \u2018luv\u2019, the marks used are not similar and are used on the burger rather than the Chicken Slice logo.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn my view, a national customer who encounters the products of the plaintiff and the first defendant is not likely to be confused by the difference between them,\u201d said the judge.<\/p>\n

Now this has been set aside.<\/p>\n

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