Lawyer Irungu Kangata representing holds a beer bottle at the Milimani Law Court on January 3, 2020 during a hearing of a case where distributors of beer products sued East African Breweries Limited for harassing them for selling Keroche beer products in bottles bearing the mark of EABL.
Photo credit: Francis Nderitu | Nation Media Group
A court in 2016 court ruled that the Euro bottle design is universal, and thus no single brewer has any intellectual property claim over it.
Nominated Senator Petronila Were last week asked Senate Committee on Trade to probe the competition watchdog on the matter.
The war pitting beer makers in Kenya against each other over use and control of a particular type of bottle is far from over.
Minor players have over the years been pointing fingers at East African Breweries Limited (EABL) for engraving this type of bottle with its trademark bottling out rivals.
