One intense battle of similar vintage that no one outside the Osho community really cared about was over the rights to trademark Osho in the European Union. Can the name of an India-born spiritual guru become a European trademark? On October 11, the General Court of the European Union in Luxembourg delivered a judgment upholding the ownership of the OSHO trademark by Osho International Foundation (OIF), an organisation under Swiss law, headquartered in Zurich. The court dismissed the petition by Osho Lotus Commune, Cologne, against the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) on the trademark case. The Cologne commune led by Osho’s German follower Ramateertha, or Robert Doetsch, had bitterly contested OIF’s claim to the OSHO trademark for more than 17 years.

Source: Hindustan Times December 05, 2017 06:11 UTC