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Trademark Law for the Craft Brewer

With the sheer number of breweries now in business and all those beers being brewed the chances are greater than ever your naming ideas are going to overlap with another brewery. We’ve all read in social media the legal dust-ups that can take place complete with cease and desist letters and other impacts. Being in the brewery business knowing the basics about trademarks will protect your business from others copying you or you accidentally copying others. The Craft Beer Attorney Candace Moon will bring you up to speed so you can better understand and work through this increasing legal situation in the craft beer world.

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CANDACE L. MOON

THE CRAFT BEER ATTORNEY, APC

INSTRUCTOR, SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY BUSINESS OF CRAFT BEER PROGRAM