Beer by Area Code

July 5, 2011 Beer by Area Code Dear Client: Will more beer be branded like Goose Island's 312 across other major U.S. area codes? CBD was tipped off last week to A-B filing for word marks that correspond with some 14 major metropolitan markets. We dug in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office database and indeed found the filings, including some for 619 (San Diego), 702 (Las Vegas), 303 (Denver), 415 (San Francisco), 216 (Cleveland), even 314 (St. Louis), among