Is it really a “tied-house” if your alcoholic beverage category isn’t sold by the retailer?
In a recent and interesting challenge to the three-tiered system’s prohibition on “tied-houses” a...
Category: Beer
Brewers, Vintners, and Distillers Get Your Money Back! (or hold on to it longer) – Federal Bond Requirements and Tax Payment Timing Changed for Small Breweries, Wineries, and Distilleries
The TTB’s new temporary rule, T.D. TTB-146 removes the bond requirements for breweries, wineries...
Is Your Label Protected? Label Art Copyright Can Provide Some Added Protection Where Trademark Might Fail
Château Mouton Rothschild exemplifies the trend of label “as” art, perhaps even to the...
TTB Finalizes Rule For Brewers, Vintners, Distillers, and Others Regarding Import / Export Procedures
Get ready to use a single interface for all your import/export filing requirements. The...
Court Issues Instructive Trademark Decision as Brooklyn Brewery Wins Injunction Against Black Ops Brewing Over “Black Ops” Trademark Row
Not every beverage you make will become a brand in itself. Often, nothing you...
Challenge to Retailer Crowler Ban in Texas Has Another Win – And Court Finds Regulatory FAQs are Rulings that Can be Challenged
Growler/crowler laws and regulations across the country are a hodgepodge of nonsensical restrictions on...
You Should Be Paid For Your Self-Distribution Rights – and Texas Agrees!
In 2013, distributors lobbied and won a concession as part of a generally...
Watch out – Court holds craft producers can be sued in foreign jurisdictions where they don’t sell just by linking to other websites that sell their products there
Craft producers from breweries and distilleries to cheese and sausage makers should sit up...
A call for analyzing the 3-tiered system? NJ Court says alcohol regulations need to be revisited in light of changing conditions
There’s an quote from Justice Holmes’ The Path of the Law that goes “[i]t...
DuClaw(s) out at Left Hand Brewery in craft beer trademark dispute over Sawtooth and Black Jack beer names
Left Hand Brewing may have just made the list of the U.S. top 50...
Don’t get fined for being good – what you need to know about advertising your donations or partnerships with charities.
Before wineries, craft breweries or distillers partner with a local or national charity to...
What should wineries, craft brewers, and distillers know about advertising and labeling involving athletes and sports?
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