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title: For Nestlé, a coffee win
description: "- The Wall Street Journal - Nestlé has scored a victory in the coffee wars as the European Patent Office upheld a patent that protects the Nespresso coffee"
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Coffee Market Scenario

# For Nestlé, a coffee win

- The Wall Street Journal - Nestlé has scored a victory in the coffee wars as the European Patent Office upheld a patent that protects the Nespresso coffee

[ Consorzio E.S.E. ](https://eseconsortium.com/media-coverage/author/consorzio-e-s-e-)

 apr 20, 2012

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- The Wall Street Journal -

Nestlé has scored a victory in the coffee wars as the European Patent Office upheld a patent that protects the Nespresso coffee system from compatible capsules made by other companies. The three Nestlé rivals - Sara Lee of US, Switzerland's Ethical Coffee and Italy's Casa del Caffè Vergnano - can challenge the decision at the patent office's court of appeal, whose decision is final.

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