The UK-based Scotch Whisky Association has lost its opposition to the Clyde River trade mark for use on alcoholic beverages, with an IP Australia delegate saying the mark had no connection to the production of spirits and rejecting the trade organisation’s argument that the mark was evocative of Scotland.

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