Big guns to fire for small NZ brewery
Beer boffins have enlisted some high-powered legal help to fight one of New Zealand's brewing giants over a trade mark.
The Society of Beer Advocates (Soba) has filed a legal application to invalidate DB Breweries' trade-marking of the beer term "radler".
The move comes after a leading firm of patent attorneys, James & Wells Intellectual Property, waded into the brewing industry stoush, originally reported in the Waikato Times on April 4, by offering the services of its specialist intellectual property litigation group on a pro-bono basis.
Earlier this year DB Breweries forced the small entrepreneurial Green Man Brewery to stop using the generic term radler and re-label its bottles, because it had trade-marked the name in New Zealand in 2003.
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The Society of Beer Advocates (Soba) has filed a legal application to invalidate DB Breweries' trade-marking of the beer term "radler".
The move comes after a leading firm of patent attorneys, James & Wells Intellectual Property, waded into the brewing industry stoush, originally reported in the Waikato Times on April 4, by offering the services of its specialist intellectual property litigation group on a pro-bono basis.
Earlier this year DB Breweries forced the small entrepreneurial Green Man Brewery to stop using the generic term radler and re-label its bottles, because it had trade-marked the name in New Zealand in 2003.
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