Radler belongs to DB and no one else

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The Intellectual Property Office has made a remarkable decision to allow DB to keep their trademark on the term Radler.
The Intellectual Property Office has made a remarkable decision to allow DB to keep their trademark on the term Radler.

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17 Jul 2011 07:04p.m.

al wrote:

The best we can hope for is the end of DB NZ companies have a bad idea that they are the original or the best and at best they can copy.

17 Jul 2011 12:28p.m.

nick a wrote:

So its okay for nz companies to rip off german ideas and NZ tv programmes (close up) to rip off american ideas but the french do a magazine sover with a guy with a moko and the sky is falling. The IPONZ needs to relise its not what is right but who is the wealthiest and most powerfull...and that would be DB. @phil yeah the unity of NZers to stand up against what is morally wrong..yeah like that happens everyday in this country!

16 Jul 2011 11:40p.m.

phil wrote:

Easy to fix. Let's all stay away from DB until the loss of $ makes them change their minds. Consumer power needs to put into action.

16 Jul 2011 10:06a.m.

peter wrote:

@ Allen - well it is a problem when you steal the idea in the first place. If they invented a new style called radler then it would be fair enough but they are just uncreative and lazy corporates pretending to be brewers and sponging off those who actually have a clue.

15 Jul 2011 05:54p.m.

Graham Weir wrote:

The actions of DB are simply ridiculous. What next? Will DB now try to say that the colour of the bottle is theirs alone? i am not a regular beer drinker, but I will not be buying their product in future - not that they will care much about one lost customer.

15 Jul 2011 03:21p.m.

Alien wrote:

they've had the rights since 2003, no one has complained until now. Really isn't anything special when you look globally at the sort of words trademarked.

15 Jul 2011 01:17p.m.

mike smith wrote:

Most worrying is that IPONZ would support such a claim and on such terribly weak grounds. It calls into question their credibility.

15 Jul 2011 11:27a.m.

peter wrote:

What an arrogant pack of idea stealing, copy cat, imagination lacking losers DB are. I'm not going to drink another drop of any of their brands because I cannot tolerate this intellectual theft - even those who had the idea first can't sell their beer in NZ. DB are thieves by any other name.

15 Jul 2011 11:03a.m.

Paul wrote:

Good on the West Coast Boutique Brewery for coming out with a 'Reldar' Beer. Lets also see 'Radlar' and/or 'Redlar' Beer labels as well, to stick it up DB and their arrogant stupidity.

14 Jul 2011 08:20p.m.

John McKirdy wrote:

Looks like I've drunk my last Montieths radler until DB give up this rediculous claim. What scumbags, expel DB management to the US where such behaviour belongs

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