Today's Big Biz Beer Bully is.....................

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So today the guys over at The Gambrinus Company, the guys that own Spoetzl Brewing and the Shiner beers, had their high-priced IP attorneys send us a cease and desist letter because we make a pretty awesome beer called Wicked Fuel with coffee from Independence Coffee Company in Brenham, TX.

Basically, the Gambrinus boys have a trademark for a product that they publicly discontinued in 2011. They would have had to submit live samples to initially get the trademark, which is important. But in August 2015 they transferred ownership of the mark from Pete’s Brewing Company (which no longer existed) to the boys in Shiner so that they could make a beer called Wicked Ram. At that point they realized that they hadn’t been enforcing their trademark (which you have to do) so they started mailing out some letters.

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