Supreme Court holds you’ll need to obtain registration of your copyright in order to protect that awesome label art and witty copy
We’ve written on many occasions about the benefits and added protections of copyrighting your...
Category: Wine
Total Wine requests 2nd Circuit en banc hearing in antitrust case over State’s post and hold and pricing alcohol laws
Total Wine (Connecticut Fine Wine & Spirits) brought a request to have their recent...
Can hashtags promoting your beverage create liability in the same way other advertising content can? #YouBet
A recent closing letter from the Federal Trade Commission has shed some light on...
Are you ready for the TTB’s new alcoholic beverage labeling and advertising regs that would change distilled spirits labeling practices? (New TTB advertising and labeling rules Part 9)
Last time, in Part 8 of our series on the TTB’s “Notice No. 176”...
2nd Circuit finds post-and-hold pricing statute does not violate antitrust provisions absent an actual agreement not to lower prices for alcoholic beverages
Plainly, the 2nd Circuit has now differed from other Circuits and determined that a...
Illinois bill proposes to eliminate bond requirement for small breweries, wineries and distilleries and importing distributors.
It’s called House Bill 2577 (link to text) and it looks to accomplish what...
So you want to have your own Goose Island field goal challenge. A brief primer sweepstakes and skill contests.
The Goose Island field goal challenge took the “you can’t buy this kind of...
Remember that time Don Newcombe took on Coors over that Killian’s Red advertisement and advanced the cause of sports celebrities and the use of their likenesses?
The passing of civil rights pioneer Don Newcombe has stirred many kind tributes and...
Facing false advertising suit, Olympia Beer removed the words “pure mountain water” from its website. Does that help or hurt?
Olympia Beer is currently waiting for a court to decide if its various branding,...
Challenges to discriminatory and protectionist liquor distribution and sales laws continue in spite of pending SCOTUS case as wine importing challenge in CA gets hearing on motion to dismiss
In a case that I was sure would be put off until after the...
Did you get a certificate of label approval before you registered your trademark? If not, it might be invalid.
We’ve covered this issue before (see below) but a recent case brings it to...
Are you ready for the TTB’s new alcoholic beverage labeling and advertising regs that would change more wine labeling practices? (New TTB advertising and labeling rules Part 8)
Last time, in Part 7 of our series on the TTB’s “Notice No. 176”...
