By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE, Oct 9 – Grant Gyesky and two others founded Rise Brewing in New York in 2014, first sold its caffeinated organic beverage in Brooklyn and are now suing PepsiCo for its Mountain Dew "Rise" product.
On October 8 U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Judge Lorna G. Schofield held a proceeding. Inner City Press covered it.
Gyesky testified that after he met with PepsiCo, the name was stolen and the Mountain Dew copycat was launched.
On cross examination, he could not name the address or attendees, other than one, at the meeting. And Pepsi's lawyer focused on other Rise-named products, and a different position in North Carolina litigation.
Midwest sales agents of Rise took the stand, describing being muscled or misled out of Kroger supermarkets in Illinois and Kentucky. It smacks of a David and Goliath story.
The case is Riseandshine Corporation v. Pepsico, Inc., 21-cv-6324 (Schofield)
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