nutty_gnome
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The snarky responses keep it all interesting. Otherwise it is all boring legal junk that I wouldn't care about.
magic hat has every right and is required to protect their trademark - I just don't feel it's necessary to post public (snarky) responses back and forth
From the letters Magic Hat posted, 6th demonstrated a willingness to work together and change their logo. Magic Hat made the decision to sever communication and file the lawsuit. I don't think a public response to that is out of line.
After months of working with them, they abruptly changed their minds and refused to take the simplest steps to avoid confusion and a lawsuit
and according to Magic Hat
as I said, it's mostly he said she said at this point
Where's that popcorn gif when you need it
Varmintman said:And this thread is why I refuse to drink craft beer and stick with the good BMC.
Craft Brewers compete with eachother far more than they do with BMC
Craft brewers also collaborate with each other quite a bit. BMC usually buys out or pursues litigation against what they see as possible threats.
Looks like I won't be drinking any more magic hat, not that it was great anyways
Why would you make a judgement without learning the real story first?
http://new.pitchengine.com/pitches/0ab90552-225c-4a77-bf2e-79ecdcd09c15
bovineblitz said:Why would you make a judgement without learning the real story first?
http://new.pitchengine.com/pitches/0ab90552-225c-4a77-bf2e-79ecdcd09c15
If that was true, Magic Hat should fire their guy, but looking at both companies Facebook pages, it has worked out well for West Sixth.Anyone ever wonder if two very wily creative marketing people in two brewing companies got together and created the controversy just for publicity?
Mongrel said:If that was true, Magic Hat should fire their guy, but looking at both companies Facebook pages, it has worked out well for West Sixth.
My favorite posts so far have been on similarities between Magic Hat's an other products. Maybe Mountain Dew will sue them over their Cucumber Hibiscus Ale logo. Then maybe Oskar Blues can sue West Sixth for putting words around the top of the can.
If that was true, Magic Hat should fire their guy, but looking at both companies Facebook pages, it has worked out well for West Sixth.
My favorite posts so far have been on similarities between Magic Hat's an other products. Maybe Mountain Dew will sue them over their Cucumber Hibiscus Ale logo. Then maybe Oskar Blues can sue West Sixth for putting words around the top of the can.
They want to claim that West Sixth stole their logo, but the logo for their cucumber hibiscus looks an awful lot like a certain soft drink logo.
Quite a few bars in Lexington and even up here in Cincinnati have already pulled Magic Hat from their offerings.
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I don't think any of us know the real story. No matter what is posted on the Internet. I still maintain that Magic Hat's complaint is silly and pedantic. Instead of trying to make good publicity over this, they resorted to complaining about a vaguely similar looking logo. Plus, I still don't like MH stuff.
So would you have been talking about Magic Hat without this controversy?
I likely would not have been talking about them unless it was regarding how much I truly disliked # 9 which does come up in social circles from time to time. It was one of the only three beers I've dumped down the sink in the last two years.
haha. I also can't stand #9, and that's the only beer I've ever had by them. But here we are, talking about Magic Hat.
I thought we were talking about West Sixth Brewery? :cross:
I just had to! I couldn't pass it up!
Every time something like this comes up people freak out over the big bad successful brewery screwing over the 'little guy'. There's this whole protecting your patents and brand thing that goes over everyone's heads.
Because those look completely different to me. I would never mistake one for the other.
Every time something like this comes up people freak out over the big bad successful brewery screwing over the 'little guy'. There's this whole protecting your patents and brand thing that goes over everyone's heads.
We need to ask all our moms if they'd mistake the two cansSorry, I posted the wrong pic. Here's a better one. I'm not trying to defend Magic Hat here, but all things considered, I think they look pretty similar. You and I would know the difference but people that don't really know a lot about beer could easily mistake the two... like my Mom for example.
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