And Starbucks only paid their legal advisors about how much for the research, legal consultation and preparation of that letter? The small business owner was very upstanding in his response and accepting of 'blame' for his egregious error in the naming of his brew.
Stay tuned for an upcoming post about how to make your own espresso drinks at home and save hundreds of dollars each month. Sorry Starbucks. I hope they won't issue me a "take-down notice."
That is really funny! I love his letter back to Starbucks. I read all the comments shown, and one of them was correct - if they don't protect their copyrights, they could lose them. So companies always write the letter. He's lucky the name in question was of one beer type, and not the business name.
My son owned a hot dog place in San Diego called "Woodies Chilidogs." It won Best Hot Dog in San Diego County in the Channel 10 Best contest for the years he owned it. Then he got a letter from a lawyer in another state saying his client has a business called Woodies - not a hot dog place, but still, it was Woodies, and it was a cease and desist letter. Tom's lawyer said it would be easier to just change the name. He ended up selling it shortly afterward because he had too many things going at the time. The new owner named it Waldo's Chilidogs, and I just checked on-line and I guess they went out of business. I don't think we ever wrote back to the lawyer.
And Starbucks only paid their legal advisors about how much for the research, legal consultation and preparation of that letter? The small business owner was very upstanding in his response and accepting of 'blame' for his egregious error in the naming of his brew.
ReplyDeleteStay tuned for an upcoming post about how to make your own espresso drinks at home and save hundreds of dollars each month. Sorry Starbucks. I hope they won't issue me a "take-down notice."
DeleteThat is really funny! I love his letter back to Starbucks. I read all the comments shown, and one of them was correct - if they don't protect their copyrights, they could lose them. So companies always write the letter. He's lucky the name in question was of one beer type, and not the business name.
ReplyDeleteMy son owned a hot dog place in San Diego called "Woodies Chilidogs." It won Best Hot Dog in San Diego County in the Channel 10 Best contest for the years he owned it. Then he got a letter from a lawyer in another state saying his client has a business called Woodies - not a hot dog place, but still, it was Woodies, and it was a cease and desist letter. Tom's lawyer said it would be easier to just change the name. He ended up selling it shortly afterward because he had too many things going at the time. The new owner named it Waldo's Chilidogs, and I just checked on-line and I guess they went out of business. I don't think we ever wrote back to the lawyer.