Johnnie Walker vs Explorers Club

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Its members have scaled Mount Everest, walked on the moon and trekked to the farthest reaches of the Earth — but they don’t make Scotch whisky, so Johnnie Walker had better stop using their name.

That was the ruling from a Manhattan judge, who has shut the spigot on a $50 million line of Johnnie Walker scotch known as “Explorers’ Club,” finding that parent company Diageo was profiting off an association with the world-renowned, Manhattan-based club without permission.

http://nypost.com/2014/08/05/johnnie-wa ... club-line/