Westlife lose trademark battle to tobacco company
Westlife have lost their five-year court battle to trademark the band's name - after a judge ruled Westlife is too similar to a German tobacco company's protected brand name, West.
The Flying Without Wings singers applied at a court in Luxembourg for a European Union trademark in 1999, but the West cigarette company complained use of Westlife's name on merchandise would cause confusion with its brand's trademark name.
