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A Trademark is a legally registered distinctive mark or sign which identifies goods, products or services that originate or are associated with a particular person or enterprise . A typical example of a trademark... more +

Chemistry, Conniption, and Constellation: The Durham Distillery Founding Story

Hutchison PLLC on 3/7/2023

Melissa Katrincic loves gin, and she sought out new brands of the spirit everywhere she went. “Whenever my husband, Lee, and I would travel, we would try new gins and gin cocktails, or we would go and buy gin at the retailer...more

MarkIt to Market® - January 2020

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C. on 2/4/2020

The January 2020 issue of Sterne Kessler's MarkIt to Market® newsletter discusses the following topics: - The TTAB's affirmation to refuse a mark to distillery Jos. A. Magnus & Co.; - Six trademark and copyright cases...more

District Court of Hamburg: Swabian whisky not allowed to use the word “glen” in its name

Hogan Lovells on 4/15/2019

Since 2013, the Scotch Whisky Association (SWA) has tried to prohibit the Swabian whisky producer Waldhornbrennerei, which is based in Berglen near Stuttgart, from using the trade mark “Glen Buchenbach”. ...more

Distilling the Relatedness of Spirits, Wines and Beer – The Lack of a Bright-Line Rule - Food, Beverage & Hospitality Alert

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 12/14/2018

The alcohol industry has seen a veritable explosion in trademark filings from craft and independent brewers, distillers and wineries. This upsurge means trademarks are coming into conflict more and more often in the...more

Distillations: The Gin Game, Southern Style

Fish & Richardson on 8/4/2017

Federal trademark law bars the registration of marks that are merely descriptive of the goods – that is, if it simply describes an ingredient, quality, characteristic, function, feature, purpose or use of the claimed goods or...more

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