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- From: danco@titan.ucc.umass.edu (DANIEL F COHEN)
- Subject: Re: Sam Adams suing someone?
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- Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 20:51:40 GMT
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- In article <1eiuqaINNsbr@cat.cis.Brown.EDU> plutchak@pilsner.geo.brown.edu (Joel Plutchak) writes:
-
- > Koch already had one lawsuit against the Boston Beer Works (an
- >excellent brewpub near Fenway Park-- I'll be there tomorrow) tossed
- >out, and reportedly recently filed another one. It's rumored that
- >he also is filing one against the Commonwealth Brewery.
-
- Whatever the basis of the suit against Commonwealth, it can't possibly do
- them more damage than that swill they've been trying to pawn off as beer
- for the last couple years. Almost put me off porter completely.
-
- >My memory
- >is a bit hazy as to the specifics, but I think the first BBW lawsuit
- >alleged that the public would confuse "Boston Beer Works" with
- >"The Boston Beer Company" (the name of Koch's brewery). The second
- >one reportedly has to do solely with the word "Boston." I think
- >the Commonwealth suit also has to do with the word "Boston" somehow.
-
- That was the missing piece. I didn't realize that was the name
- of Koch's company.
-
- You have rendered sense from the senseless. A thousand thanks.
-
- --Dan
-