Show Posts   Messages - krantul  Pages: [1] « on: November 16,
2012, 09:27:59 AM » Strange Brewhomebrew supplier is not
adversely affected in my mind by the CO group's use of the name.
Strange Brew's trademark for the sale of homebrew supplies is
not harmed by Strange Brewing's activities.  But they do have a
second trademark on the name for beer, filed in 2007, because
they had 'intent to use' for a brewery themselves.  I don't find
the geography relevant in the dispute to be relevant, as both
the existing Strange Brewing and the future Strange Brew
breweries would doubtless enjoy distributing beer to each
other's states if they could ever grow to that level; it may
seem unlikely, but there is potential, and thus potential for
market confusion.  I proposed the earlier hypotheticals to try
and get people to look at this from different perspectives.  The
A-B one was to reverse this whole David-Goliath metaphor that
some people are trying to perpetuate and illustrate who
sympathies might shift when a different