HEAVEN HILL SUES BOB DYLAN WHISKEY BRAND

Aug 21, 2018

(TDB) - Spirits producer Heaven Hill Distilleries has filed a lawsuit against the Bob Dylan-owned whiskey brand Heaven’s Door Spirits, claiming it infringes its trademark rights.

The legendary singer songwriter launched his own brand of Tennessee whiskey, last year, producing a Bourbon, double barrel whiskey and a straight rye whiskey at a distillery house inside a deconsecrated church in Tennessee.

Called Heaven’s Door, the brand is a collaboration between Dylan and entrepreneur Marc Bushala, the co-founder of Kentucky Straight Bourbon “Angel’s Envy”, which was sold for $150 million to Bacardi in 2015.

The brand itself is named after Dylan’s 1973 hit, that was later covered by Guns n’ Roses in 1987.

However last week the Heaven Hill Distilleries filed a lawsuit against the start-up brand at a US District Court in Louisville, arguing that it infringes its own trademark, which it has been using for more than 80 years since it was founded in the 1930s.


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