I wonder if they will use the same recipe for '312' that Goose Island was using, except use water taken from the local supply.
It could be an interesting study in the way local water effects the final product...or maybe not...
I think whoever is running the AB-Inbev rat circus needs the a$$ beatin of a lifetime. Pound there sorry behinds within a quarter inch of their avarice ridden lives.
If I was the judge,I'd laugh in their faces & throw them out! WTGDF!!!!!!!!! If they get away with that one,they'll copywrite every animal name,every slang name...you get the picture. We little guys won't have anything left to name our brews if/when we go commercial.
This crap has just plain got to stop!! They are getting waaaaay to greedy,to the point where even a total moron will say,"WTF?".
Not to defent In-Bev too much, but I don't think they're just trying to trademark anything they possibly can (I didn't read the article by the way). Goose Island, which they bought recently has a beer called 312, and I'm assuming they will call it the different area codes in different markets.
That's part of the problem. Nobody sees it till it's too late. Not to call names or impune any of you. I just see this for what it really is. An excuse to wield more power. More control. They can just leave it at "312",since that name denotes where it came from originally. If it were me,that's sure as hell what I'd tell them.
I wouldn't trust any of them as far as I could throw their bullet riddled corpses. It's the same corporate clone mentality from our government to the big bankers controlling them & big business. Damn,I need a beer...hey,wait a tick...isn't that what we were talking about? Dang,...I better have a shot with that.............
Didn't intel corp get in a fight about the letter 'e' ? ...as in, they thought they owned it... silly billy intel; everybody knows that Microsoft owns the letter 'e' !
How can anyone own something so riducioukls? Whoever owns that old letter 'e' ought be required to make reparation to the italians, they kinda invented the latin alphabet didn't they? (oh that's right, they stole it from those other folks that lived in the back lot... sumeria or something).
Now where did I put that numeral 1? Ohhh, yeah, you's guys stole it for your keyboards. Maybe I should get some money for that??? I mean, it's mine you know, as in, "you owe me money dude"!
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- M
ps. in case you're wondering, it's actually the letter 'i' which intel owns. *Sigh* Who would believe a company could own a letter like 'e' - it's so much more free and easy going.
If I were a pro in any of the areas this affects I'd immediately release a beer named for the area code just to f*c& with the process. I'm not a lawyer but doesn't part of the application process for a patent require that there isn't already a product with that name? Or would the creation of the beer have to predate the patent application?
Doog_Si_Reeb said:I hope they go after 505. Then all of the little homies and gangbangers with 505 tattooed on the back of their head in this state would end up being unpaid advertisers. It would be a brilliant marketing scheme on In-Bev's part. They just need to put the numbers in Old English font.
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