Missouri Bar Owner Mocks Starbucks' Cease-and-Desist Letter

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ABC News:

SUSANNA KIM

12/31/13

 

Jeff Britton, owner of a bar in Missouri, thought it was funny that Starbucks thinks customers might get confused that a "Frappicino" beer would be mistaken for a Frappucino coffee drink. So he responded to the coffee giant with biting humor in a letter that has made the rounds online.

 

Britton, 40, is owner of Exit 6 Pub and Brewery that seats about 75 people in Cottleville, Mo., about 30 miles west of St. Louis.

 

Three weeks ago, Britton received a cease-and-desist letter from one of Starbucks' lawyers, Anessa Owen Kramer, who wrote, "It has recently come to Starbucks Coffee Co.'s attention that Exit 6 Pub and Brewery LLC is or was using the mark Frappicino in connection with a stout-style beer crafted by the brewery."

 

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