Blizzard suit swirls around W.B. Mason

By adamg on Fri, 03/16/2018 - 9:02am

Dairy Queen, which makes a concoction called a Blizzard, is suing homegrown office-supply company W.B. Mason over its Blizzard brand of bottled water, Reuters reports.

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finally, an answer

By SC from JP on Fri, 03/16/2018 - 9:13am.

Who but WB Mason?

Lawyers with too much time on their hands

By Gary C on Fri, 03/16/2018 - 1:52pm.

No one is confusing this:

IMAGE(https://images.wbmason.com/240/M_BLZ16924.jpg)

with this
IMAGE(http://www.dqnorthside.com/resources/Blizzard.jpg)

With trademarks, it all

By anon on Fri, 03/16/2018 - 10:51am.

With trademarks, it all depends on the scope of the exclusivity granted to you by the USPTO:

Dairy Queen's trademark (reg 0895139) of the BLIZZARD mark is for milk shakes.

WB Mason's trademark application (s/n 87210712) is for BLIZZARD SPRING WATER.

I don't see how they overlap.

There's a brewery in MN called Schell's that used to release a "Blizzard" ale every year. On the tour, the brewery said DQ owned all beverage rights to the name Blizzard but kindly allowed them to sell the rest of their beer before renaming it (probably as a "one MN company to another" courtesy).

Still waiting

By AMCoffee on Fri, 03/16/2018 - 2:03pm.

I should testify in this case...Ever since they replaced the water cooler at work with the one by WB Mason, I expect soft serv ice cream to be dispensed from the tap. I mean, it says Blizzard on the bottle, right there in big letters !

Is Barry Burbank a star

By anon on Fri, 03/16/2018 - 9:49am.

Is Barry Burbank a star witness?

Do we need a run to the

By anon on Fri, 03/16/2018 - 9:52am.

Do we need a run to the supermarket before the trial begins? Will the "Storm Team" be on it?

Plastic pieces, some as thick as a hair, are in bottled water.

By theszak on Fri, 03/16/2018 - 10:50am.

Microplastics, some as thick as a hair, are in bottled water.

Anna Werner
Does your bottled water contain plastic?
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/plastic-particles-in-bottled-water-suny-res...

By Aristos Georgiou
Microplastics: Bottled Water May Contain Thousands of Pieces of Plastic Waste
http://www.newsweek.com/microplastics-bottled-water-may-contain-thousand...

Fish Are Pooping

By John Costello on Fri, 03/16/2018 - 10:00am.

In the Quabbin and the Wachusett.

There is still a gas station cleaned up to the environmental standards of the 1930's (i.e. none) at the bottom of the Quabbin.

Nothing is safe, but we go on.

So do you suggest that people

By Steeve on Fri, 03/16/2018 - 10:28am.

So do you suggest that people install water filtration plants inside their bottle of water to remove the plastic like they remove the fish poop?

Companies do sell little

By anon on Fri, 03/16/2018 - 10:54am.

Companies do sell little filters that screw on disposable water bottles. Here's one.

Wrong

By anon on Fri, 03/16/2018 - 11:17am.

cleaned up to the environmental standards of the 1930's

Truthy Lore from the Past and "has to be!!!" rumors and stories are not the same as facts.

All oil tanks gas tanks were dug out as part of demolition before the area was flooded. There and in Dana and other areas that are still above water.

Good resource for reading the actual decommissioning plans:
http://www.mwra.com/

Touche

By John Costello on Fri, 03/16/2018 - 12:37pm.

Channel 5 did a thing on the Quabbin a number of years ago and showed with underwater footage old Esso oil drums in the old center of Prescott.

Also, do you really think all that creosote from the railway that went through there and all of the coal dust, was picked up? The area was denuded, but not necessarily returned to pristine condition.

That being said, the volume of water in Quabbin negates any contamination from these old sources.

(Also, when I had a really bad case of athlete's foot in 1991 I went swimming in the Quabbin after a kegger at a caretaker's house, so arrest me if you want).

That's the last straw

By Gary C on Fri, 03/16/2018 - 12:42pm.

I can stand a little creosote and oil, but COOTIES are out of the question!

Do you mean Enfield, or maybe Greenwich?

By Neal on Fri, 03/16/2018 - 1:16pm.

underwater footage old Esso oil drums in the old center of Prescott.

The vast majority of Prescott, including all of its center, as well as about half of Dana (including all of its center), remain well above the waterline.