The Consortium for the protection of IGT "Isola dei Nuraghi" wines from Sardinia takes the field alongside the Muggittu Boeli winery , "accused" by the giant Red Bull of having a logo that is too similar to its own.
«I feel obliged to defend this small winery», explains the president4e of the Consortium Maurizio Cherchi . «The trademark of the Muggittu Boeli winery, deposited at the patent office by the Sardinian company, represents - continues Cherchi - two oxen in a bucolic attitude, with the red sign of the plow underneath and the circles of the Boeli stele above, a menhir that dates to the Neolithic found in Mamoiada. Two black bulls attacking each other head-on in a circle is the Red Bull logo. I see no similarities. Furthermore, Red Bull deals with the production of smart drinks and energy drinks, the Mamoiada winery produces only wines».
For this reason, Cherchi continues, «as president of the Consortium I want to defend our wine production and the Sardinian wine world from the constant attacks of European lobbies. Therefore, also supported by other producers and above all by Coldiretti , I turned to the lawyer Mauro Intagliata, who will follow the entire legal procedure regarding the verification of the patent».
«It is a question - concludes the president of the Consortium, also asking for the collaboration and support of the president of the Region Christian Solinas - to save a small company that has already put on the market as many as 2000 liters of bottled and packaged wine, the result of the processing of a vineyard of five hectares. Production that Red Bull would now like to make disappear from the market».
(Unioneonline/lf)
