• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • Advertise
  • About Craft Brewing Business

Craft Brewing Business

Professional Insight, Unfiltered

Craft Brewing Business Craft Brewing Business
  • News
  • Business & Marketing
  • Packaging & Distribution
  • Equipment & Systems
  • Ingredients & Supplies
  • Webinars & White Papers
  • News
  • Business & Marketing
  • Ingredients & Supplies
  • Packaging & Distribution
  • Equipment
  • Webinars & White Papers
  • COVID-19

Oregon Brewing Co. sues Rogue 24 restaurant, which cries ‘bullying’

May 6, 2013Keith Gribbins

stone court
Oregon Brewing want DC’s Rogue 24 restaurant to stop using the Rogue name and “destroy all literature, signs, billboards, labels, prints, packages, wrappers, containers, advertising materials, stationery, menus and other items in their possession, custody or control that use Rogue and Rogue 24.”

There are more than 14,000 beer product names currently registered or in the process of registration at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Ensuring proper trademarks for a brewery is a serious legal process that many craft brewers don’t take seriously enough. Oregon Brewing Co. takes its trademarks seriously. The company behind the popular Rogue Ales is suing chef R.J. Cooper and his restaurant, Rogue 24, based in Washington, D.C., for trademark infringement (among other claims), according to The Washington Post. Cooper says he’s just being bullied. Here what the article says:

Named after a tasting menu that Cooper first conceived at Vidalia, where owner Jeff Buben joked his chef had “gone rogue,” Rogue 24 has been serving up small modernist plates since July 2011. Nearly two years later, the West Coast brewery has determined that the chef and his restaurant are “likely to cause confusion, mistake and/or deception as to the affiliation, connection or association of defendants with” Oregon Brewing, attorneys for the brewery wrote in the suit, filed last week in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

Oregon Brewing is asking Cooper and Rogue 24 to stand down on all fronts. The brewery, which owns a number of Rogue-themed watering holes and distilleries on the West Coast, wants Cooper to stop using the Rogue name and “destroy all literature, signs, billboards, labels, prints, packages, wrappers, containers, advertising materials, stationery, menus and other items in their possession, custody or control that use Rogue and Rogue 24.” Oregon Brewing also wants Cooper to transfer the domain name for his Web site, rogue24.com, to the company.

“It’s a multi-, multi-, multi-million-dollar brewery going after a small restaurant for no reason,” says the Beard Award-winning chef about Oregon Brewing, one of the top 25 craft brewers in the country. “It’s called bullying. It’s exactly what it is.”

This is just the latest news in a steady stream of craft beer-related trademark disputes. Be sure to check out more stories from all our trademark coverage.

Craft Beer Trademark Copyright Tips
Trademark issue: DC Brau defends “Citizen,” brewery changes name to Denizens
Anatomy of a Beer Label Part II: Trademarks
heavy seas loose cannon
The United Kingdom’s Loose Cannon Brewery, U.S.-based Heavy Seas Beer broker trademark peace agreement
guns n roses
Appetite for injunction: Oskar Blues sued by Guns ‘N’ Roses over Guns ‘N’ Rosé beer brand

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Lupulous says

    May 6, 2013 at 3:34 pm

    RT @CraftBrewingBiz: Oregon Brewing Co. sues Rogue 24 restaurant, which cries “bullying. Read the details @ http://t.co/VRUCeXsNlr

    Log in to Reply
  2. BavarianAF says

    May 6, 2013 at 2:44 pm

    Hmmmm…
    We know nothing of this other than the article, but if OBC actually operates restaurants under the name… http://t.co/umomGHihn6

    Log in to Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

You must be logged in to post a comment.

Primary Sidebar

Latest News

  • The who, what, where, when and how (to register) for Homebrew Con 2023
  • Twenty Tennessee breweries prep 2023 Craft Brewers Conference collab and more beers to know this week
  • Karben4 Brewing to relaunch Ale Asylum brand
  • Caius Farm Brewery opens in Branford, Conn.

Sign up for our newsletter

unsubscribe from list

Most Popular Today

Recent Features

  • Koga-brothers-karben4Karben4 Brewing to relaunch Ale Asylum brand
    March 20, 2023
  • 4 steps to understanding the filtration process in craft beer
    March 20, 2023
  • newbelgium_2023_wildnectar-shopping-basket_family_IMG_2Beyond beer: Examples of craft breweries exploring canned cocktails
    March 16, 2023
  • brooklyn 35 featureBrooklyn Lager turns 35 and more beers to know this week
    March 14, 2023
  • Backwoods Brewing to open a 19-acre resort called Party Acres in the Columbia River gorge this May
    March 13, 2023
  • Distribution update: NYC’s Alewife Brewing now sells in eastern Pennsylvania + news from Maui, Urban South and more
    March 13, 2023

Footer

  • Email Newsletter Sign Up
  • About Craft Brewing Business
  • Contact Us
  • Advertise on Craft Brewing Business
  • Media Kit Download
  • Privacy and Terms

© 2023 · CBB Media LLC