Small Thredbo company wins legal fight against ski resort owners

By Christopher Knaus
Updated July 22 2014 - 4:18pm, first published 4:01pm
The court found the word “Thredbo” to be a geographical name.
The court found the word “Thredbo” to be a geographical name.

It was the biggest snowball fight of them all, yet it was waged without so much as a snowflake in sight. For years a legal battle has raged over ownership of the word “Thredbo”, the popular NSW ski destination currently enjoying record dumps.