Scottish brewery in legal fight with BrewDog
Sonja Mitchell, the head of Edinburgh-based Jump Ship Brewing, which is taking BrewDog to court over a beer called Shore Leave
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A small Scottish brewery is taking BrewDog to court in an intellectual property dispute over an alleged stolen beer name.
Jump Ship Brewing has taken the firm to the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court in London and wants to get its larger rival to stop selling an ale called Shore Leave.
Edinburgh-based Jump Ship, a non-alcoholic beer specialist founded in 2019, had launched a rhubarb and ginger pale ale under the Shore Leave moniker in June last year. It followed that up with a separate flavour, chuckleberry sour, in May this year.
Then it emerged BrewDog had filed a trademark for Shore Leave in the spring of this year and James Watt, its co-founder, shared can designs on social media. There was also a mocked-up
