If you like beer advertisements with not-so-subtle jabs at competitors, then you will like the Seventh Circuit’s recent decision in Molson Coors Beverage Co. USA, LLC v. Anheuser-Busch Cos., LLC. After over a year of battling over whether Anheuser’s “corn syrup” ads, which target Molson Coors’ Miller Lite and Coors Light for brewing with corn syrup, should be enjoined, the Seventh Circuit has finally ruled that none of Anheuser’s “corn syrup” ads are false or misleading, and thus do not constitute false advertising, in light of Molson’s own statements that corn syrup is an “ingredient” in both beers.
