This Buds not for you in Germany
Now that the US Budweiser Brand is owned by InBev of Europe, they took another run at the courts to get full European rights to the name Budweiser.
Unfortunately for them, the small Czech brewer who originally had the name prevailed again. They too have been using the name since the late 19th century and could prove it with very old advertising copy.
So the motto of this story is: If you copy your name from a small unknown company in Eastern Europe, don’t assume they will roll over and die, or even license you worldwide rights. Needless to say, every beer producer salivates at serving suds in Germany under their own brand name.
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