AN alcohol chain in New Zealand won a trademark fight with Scottish whisky watchdogs over the name MacGowans.
Mill Liquor Save wanted to use the name for a new whisky-flavoured spirit. The Scotch Whisky Association claimed consumers could be left thinking the drink was a real Highland dram.
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