Court of Justice 7 May 2009, C-446/07 (Alberto Severi v Regione Emilia Romagna.)

Opinion of the Advocate-General Opinion of the Advocate-General 1. In a situation in which the name of a foodstuff, which is evocative of a place of provenance, has been registered by a group of local producers as a (national) collective trade mark, and an application has also been made for its registration as a (Community) protected designation of origin (‘PDO’) or protected geographical