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Honest Mistake or Calculated Move?

Dear Client: You would think including a word like 'anchor' in your new brewery's name would raise a red flag, right? It conjures one of craft's oldest breweries, Anchor Brewing, which has held a trademark on the word in beer-related matters for quite some time. So when Drop Anchor beers started popping up in 60-plus locations around their home state of Washington, they were destined for a name change. It's not clear whether Drop Anchor was aware of their infringement

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