Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Started it all...

Tattletales!





In 1899, four years and probably some attorney's fees later, Newark, NJ's Feigenspan Beer would lose a trademark lawsuit by Bass Ratcliff & Gretton brewer of the famous Bass Ale labeled with a red triangle (and said to be the first trademark),  over this label with a "similar color and outline as to be mistaken for each other".




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