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Red Bull Demands UK 8-Employee Redwell Brewery Change It’s Name

8/14/2013 01:08:00 AM

image From the Daily Mail:

Soft drinks giant Red Bull has accused a little-known UK microbrewery of infringing its trademark and has demanded it change its name.

The energy drinks firm has sent Norwich-based Redwell Brewing - which only started trading in October and employs just eight staff - a threatening letter insisting it could not use the word 'red' because it owned the trademark.

The Austrian company also objected to the second part of the name 'well' because it ends with the same two letters as 'bull'.

UPDATE from the BBC:

Red Bull now said there was "no dispute" and it was happy for Redwell to use its name as long as it did not use it for energy drinks.
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