Ale Yeah! Sued By LM Restaurants/Carolina Ale House

From Ale Yeah!:

Want to see what a bully looks like? Here you go. @carolinalehouse, gloves are off, challenge accepted.

and this update from Decaturish:

LMR Restaurants, based in North Carolina, this month filed a lawsuit against Ale Yeah!, claiming the company is improperly using a trademark owned by LMR.

The company said it warned the two defendants named in the suit, Francisco Vila and Eddie Holley, that the name Ale Yeah! was its trademark.

“Despite receiving LMR’s letter advising them of LMR’s rights, Defendants Villa and Holley refused to stop using the ALE YEAH! mark,” the lawsuit says.

Ale Yeah! has taken to Twitter to blast LMR for filing the lawsuit, calling the company a “bully.”

“You ask what’s this about? Being a bully, plain & simple,” the company said. “In the hopes to outspend us @LMRestaurants & @carolinalehouse had us served.”

About MyBeer Buzz

Founder, owner, author, graphic designer, CEO, CFO, webmaster, president, mechanic and janitor for mybeerbuzz.com. Producer and Co-host of the WILK Friday BeerBuzz live weekly craft beer radio show. Small craft-brewer of the craft beer news sites and one-man-band with way too many instruments to play........Copyright 2007-2024 mybeerbuzz.com All Rights Reserved: Use of this content on ANY site without written permission is not allowed.

1 comments (click to read or post):

Howard Bacaaazeo18 August, 2015 21:25
If the trademark was registered by LMR, how are they being a bully by protecting a trademark which they own?
The whole purpose of trademark registration is to protect the registrant's rights in commerce, and in order to protect their rights and assert their ownership, they have to take action.
Did "Ale Yeah!" not do their homework before starting to use the name? I wonder what their defense is.

Please leave a comment...I do moderate each comment so it may not appear immediately...and please be nice! You can also comment using Disqus (below) or even comment directly on Facebook (bottom).