What’s in a name?
Apparently, if you’re Sam Adams (the brewery), you’re not too fond of having any other famous Sam Adams-es around mucking up your vaunted Trademark- with- a- Capital- T.
So Sam Adams (the brewery) has informed Sam Adams (the mayoral candidate) that he may NOT use either samadamsformayor.com or mayorsamadams.com, as it makes the beer folks angry (it’s a matter of serious concern, according to the letter two KEX DJs – who’d registered the domain names as a gift for Adams – received.)
What does Sam Adams the candidate say? According to this OLive news update:
“They say they’ve been using this name since 1984. I’ve been using it since 1963.”
What’s next? Steel cage death match between fictional character Harry Potter and almost-former Mayor Tom Potter?
Sam Adams lives in a city with much better beer than Sam Adams.
Don’t those silly people know that Samuel Adams isn’t considered a real beer here in Portland?
How about one of these instead:
oursamadamsisbetterthantheirsamadams.com
thesobersamadams.com
samadamssince1963.com
theoriginalsamadams.com
or, my favorite:
oursamadamsisntswill.com
Lame. It would seem like Sam Adams (the beer) should focus on actual issues, instead of non-issues that they’re on the wrong side of.
What a wasted PR move. Sam Adams beer as a sponser to Sam Adams the Mayor in Portland, the Beer Capital! But no, they waste it all away on a lawsuit.
Sam Adams beer sucks. After this…never shall I drink that donkey piss again.
SA (the person) has served SA (the beer) at previous events. Not the worst beer out there and a great PR point. Yay for IP lawyer drones. :(
Wow… that is lame. You’d think they would have found a way to PR spin the thing instead of making enemies in such a beer-drinking city as ours. It was the perfect opportunity dropped softly in their laps. Well, they probably just burnt their bridge here in Portland. Their loss. Mayor Sam Adams(<—looking to the future), I say, boycott Samuel Adams beer… first thing upon winning the election, sign off on the bill to ban all Samuel Adams beer from our great city. We should PR spin this thing to our advantage…
One of the local brewers has a golden (or amber) opportunity here: replicate the Boston Tea Party in Portland, but with Samuel Adams beer. The bottles could be fished up afterward for the deposits.
That is genius Isaac. Genius!
Yes, but…
…hasn’t the poor beleagured Willamette River (the superfund site and recipient of all kinds of overflow, from caffeine to prescription drugs to human waste when it rains more than 1/8th of an inch) been battered ENOUGH here already?
I don’t think pouring Sam Adams beer in it helps any, do you?
Betsy, I figured on throwing in the bottles with their caps still on. When fished out they’d be at cellar temperature, cool but not chilled, perfect for an October day in Portland.
it could be a ceremony @ Jamison Square in the pearl. there’s water there.
Dieselboi, how about at the Skidmore Fountain? When it opened, Henry Weinhard offered to run a hose from his brewery to the fountain, so that it could spout beer on opening day. The city turned him down, either on grounds of temperance or on not wanting drunken horses downtown. It’s about time for the fountain to have its date with a brewer.
Following a link from B!x
http://www.furiousnads.com/2007/oct/25/sneaky/
I see that the new version Boston Tea Party idea has made it’s way back to Boston…(Comment #6)
http://www.bostonmagazine.com/blogs/boston/2007/10/25/will-the-real-sam-adams-please-stand-up/
The boycott is on!
http://rustypdx.blogspot.com/search/label/Sam%20Adams%20Boycott
The revolution will be blogovised!
Come one over to http://www.samadamssucks.org and sign the petition to send a message to Boston Beers that Mark and Dave or Sam Adams (the living person) should be allowed to keep those domain names.