[Ads-l] running out of words for beer...

[Baker, John]

Although the article focuses on beer, finding distinctive trade names that have not already been trademarked is a problem for all lines of business.


John Baker


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Subject: running out of words for beer...

"A trip through recent trademark contests finds Maine’s Wash Ashore Beer
Co. taking issue with another brewery’s application for a Washed Ashore
beer; a dust-up over a similar-looking yeti image between a Denver brewery
and The Red Yeti brewpub in Indiana; and The Shed Brewery in Vermont
contesting a competitor’s “Brew Shed” beer. Battles have been waged over
anchors and narwhals, kilts and yoga terms, and ownership of the word
“idiot.”

“We’re literally running out of words in the English language that haven’t
already been taken,” said Brendan Palfreyman, a lawyer in Syracuse, N.Y.,
who handles beer trademark cases."

http://www.wsj.com/articles/hopportunity-cost-craft-brewers-brawl-over-catchy-names-as-puns-run-dry-1468170639
DanG

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