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Tom Murray of MurLarkey Distillery in Bristow, Virginia.(By Robert Jinks Photography, www.robertjinksphotography.com)The distillery, about 35 miles west of Washington D.C., has been in business less than three years and the market for its vodka, gin and various whiskies is limited to Virginia, Washington and Maryland. The move into Maryland was recent. MurLarkey has four employees - Murray, his brother, their cousin and his father-in-law.Monster Energy, on the other hand, is a big conglomerate based in California with 2,500 employees.
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The company’s roots date to the 1930s. Its products are sold around the world and reportedly generate more than $28 billion a year in revenue.“We’re still trying to break a million,” Murray said.
He’s worried about the cost of taking on Monster Energy.Monster Energy says in its TTAB complaint that MurLarkey’s logo looks like its famous “M” logo, the one on billions of cans.Murray disputes that and doesn’t believe the two logos would cause consumers to be confused — the basis of Monster Energy’s objection. MurLarkey Distillery operates out of Bristow, Virginia.(MurLarkey Distillery)Monster Energy has filed a number of TTAB proceedings over the years, challenging the use of logos and the words “monster” and “beast” and claw-like symbols.According to Trademarkia.com, a trademark search engine, Monster Energy was 2017’s No. 1 'trademark bully,' objecting to 57 trademark applications.In 2016 Monster Energy challenged a small New Jersey brewery that wanted to trademark a beer called “Beast from the East,” saying it would infringe on its “Unleash the Beast” slogan.
The brewery abandoned its application. The distillery, about 35 miles west of Washington D.C., has been in business less than three years and the market for its vodka, gin and various whiskies is limited to Virginia, Washington and Maryland(MurLarkey Distillery)That same year, Monster Energy filed an opposition against an Iowa man and candy seller who applied for a trademark for Monstrous Bliss, saying that it would violate its trademark for Java Monster.
Monster Energy won a default judgment when the Iowan failed to submit an answer to its opposition. Monster Energy is a big conglomerate based in California with 2,500 employees.
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The company’s roots date to the 1930s. Its products are sold around the world and reportedly generate more than $28 billion a year in revenue; Pictured are some of the Monster Girls, who can be seen at Nascar races(Icon Sportswire (A Division of XML Team Solutions))A year earlier, Monster Energy went after a winery in Bordeaux, France, with the name Dassault, claiming that allowing the name to be trademarked would confuse consumers of its Monster Assault drink. Monster Energy later withdrew its opposition.In a long drawn out battle that began in 2014 Monster Energy challenged the trademark application of a tropical aquarium website called MonsterFishKeepers.com. Over the use of the word 'monster' in the company's name.Two years ago, MonsterFishKeepers.com beat back Monster Energy’s challenge to its name, but not its logo. The website was represented by a legal clinic in Boston run by law school students. The TTAB ruled that there was little likelihood that the MonsterFishKeepers name would cause confusion with the Monster Energy name.Last year, Monster Energy challenged a tiny root beer company in D.C.
Called Thunder Beast over the use of the word “beast” in the company’s name.
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