UEFA warms to 'Champignons League' pizza, no trademark beef
BERLIN (AP) - The Champignons League pizza is fine with UEFA after all.
European soccer's governing body said Tuesday it does not mind that a German frozen pizza manufacturer is referencing the Champions League with one of its cheesy offerings.
The manufacturer, Pizza Wolke, said on Sunday that it had received a letter from a lawyer acting on behalf of UEFA asking it to cease using the name 'œChampignons League'ť for its mushroom pizza.
But in a slice of good news for Pizza Wolke, which is based in the central town of Gießen north of Frankfurt, UEFA suggested that the legal representative had made a meal of the matter.
'œUEFA obviously takes the protection of its intellectual property seriously but this instance seems to be a case of an overzealous local trademark agent acting too hastily,'ť the governing body said in a statement. 'œThe UEFA Champions League can happily live alongside this delicious-sounding pizza.'ť
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