Your microbrewery receives a trade mark cease and desist letter from a lawyer. What do you do? What should you have done? IP expert Josh Henderson discusses the issues.
Trade Mark
Trade mark stoush looms over ‘Pacific Ale’
A row could be looming over the use of the name Pacific Ale, with a Melbourne brewer claiming it as a generic style.
A Wayward win in David vs Goliath trademark battle
Wayward Brewing has been victorious in its battle with multinational giant brewer SABMiller India to register its trade mark WAYWARD for beer in Australia..
A Cold War: The battle of Budweiser
Stephen Holden takes a look at beer names, geography and history and how they relate to the fascinating world of beer marketing and branding….
CUB: We love our brands…to death.
CUB loves its heritage brands so much, it continues to make more of them…heritage brands that is, not beer.
What’s a brand and what’s a beer?
So, exactly what is this “medal-winning” “Byron Bay Pale Lager” to which they refer?
Thunder Road takes the road less travelled
In his first post for Australian Brews News, Leon Sammartino looks at the court case battle over dome of CUB’s oldest trade marks…
New brewery trademarks ‘Any Beer’
Please note: yes, this was an April Fool’s gag except Monteith’s really have trademarked Radler and an Australian brewery has indeed tried to register Australian Ale and Australian lager… A newly established brewery has courted controversy by trademarking the name ‘Any Beer’ and is seeking to prevent publicans from serving other beers when patrons request “any beer”…. Read more →
A tale of competing beer days
Maybe it’s irony that on International IPA Day, the day that celebrates one of the most flavoursome of commonly available craft beers , CUB has published a release commemorating International Beer Day and tying it to one of the least flavoursome – or ‘super crisp’ – beers on the market today. Of course, while IPA… Read more →
It had to happen…
A Hitler’s Downfall parody of DB Breweries’ ridiculous trade mark over the style name ‘Radler’ was inevitable. The only question was how good it would be. The answer: priceless.