{"id":1114,"date":"2009-02-06T00:11:36","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T04:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.2beerguys.com\/blog\/?p=1114"},"modified":"2009-02-06T00:11:36","modified_gmt":"2009-02-06T04:11:36","slug":"beer-law-battle-over-the-hop-head-brand-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/06\/beer-law-battle-over-the-hop-head-brand-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Beer Law – Battle over the ‘Hop Head’ brand name"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s an interesting Trademark story that was posted on thefullpint.com, but originated on the B.C. Beer Blog.\u00c2\u00a0 Is it worth the trouble?
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Sean
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Drink Craft Beer, You’ve Earned It!!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tree Brewing Goes Hop Head to Hop Head with Green Flash<\/strong>
\nPosted by: Jonny Fullpint <\/em><\/p>\n

Green Flash Brewing Co.In yet another case of lupulin litigation \u00e2\u20ac\u201d or the threat thereof \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Kelowna\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Tree Brewing served notice on San Diego\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Green Flash Brewing Co. to cease using the name \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Hop Head\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in BC. Since August 2008, Green Flash has been selling its Hop Head Red Ale in select private liquor stores, mostly in the Lower Mainland. Tree brews Hop Head India Pale Ale.<\/p>\n

This is the fourth case in two years in which BC craft breweries have been involved in legal disputes over trademarks. In 2007, Vancouver\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Mark James Group demanded Victoria\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Phillips Brewing stop using the name Blue Truck because it was too similar to its Red Truck brand. Last year, England\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Wychwood Brewery threatened punitive action against Vancouver\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s R&B Brewing as they felt the market would be confused between the latter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Hop Goblin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 India Pale Ale and their Hobgoblin Ale. (Memo to Wychwood: we aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t confused and are pissed off you think us to be that stupid.) Also last year, Sleeman took Aldergrove\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Dead Frog to task over use of clear bottles. Dead Frog isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t backing down and will battle it out in the courts.<\/p>\n

TFP\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Take: There are many nicer ways to go about this, and there is one example that should be referred to. Avery Brewing\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Collaboration Not Litigation<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a great story of two breweries who decided to take two great brews sharing the same name, and blending them to create another great beer.\u00c2\u00a0 Make no mistake about it, we are huge fans of Green Flash, so please contact Tree Beer by following this link. Hound them to make the right decision. http:\/\/treebeer.com\/page.php?pageID=118<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Here’s an interesting Trademark story that was posted on thefullpint.com, but originated on the B.C. Beer Blog.\u00c2\u00a0 Is it worth the trouble? Sean 2Beerguys.com Drink Craft Beer, You’ve Earned It!! Tree Brewing Goes Hop Head to Hop Head with Green Flash Posted by: Jonny Fullpint Green Flash Brewing Co.In yet another case of lupulin litigation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,74],"tags":[527,528],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1114"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1125,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions\/1125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}