Case 3:18-cv-00331-BEN-LL Document 19 Filed 04/10/18 PageID.75 Page 1 of 82 1 Natalie Hanlon Leh ( pro hac vice ) 2
[email protected] WILMER CUTLER PICKERING 3 HALE AND DORR LLP 4 1225 Seventeenth Street, Suite 2600 Denver, CO 80202 5 Telephone: (720) 274-3135 6 Facsimile: (720) 274-3133 7 [Additional counsel listed on signature page] 8 9 10 ATTORNEYS FOR DEFENDANT 11 MILLERCOORS LLC 12 13 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 14 SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 15 Case No. 18-CV-0331-BEN-JMA 16 STONE BREWING CO., LLC, 17 Plaintiff, District Judge: Hon. Roger T. 18 v. Benitez 19 Magistrate Judge: Hon. Jan M. 20 MOLSON COORS BREWING COMPANY, MILLERCOORS Adler 21 LLC, and DOES 1 through 25, MILLERCOORS LLC’S ANSWER 22 inclusive, TO COMPLAINT AND 23 Defendants. COUNTERCLAIMS 24 25 26 27 28 1 ActiveUS 167210176v.1 COUNTERCLAIMS AND ANSWER Case 3:18-cv-00331-BEN-LL Document 19 Filed 04/10/18 PageID.76 Page 2 of 82 1 Defendant MillerCoors LLC (“MillerCoors”) hereBy suBmits this 2 Answer to the Complaint filed By plaintiff Stone Brewing Co., LLC 3 (“Stone Brewing”) and Counterclaims. 4 COUNTERCLAIMS 5 1. MillerCoors is responsiBle for some of America’s most 6 popular Beers, such as Coors Light , Miller Lite , Blue Moon , and 7 Keystone Light . Plaintiff Stone Brewing, founded in 1996 as Koochen 8 Vagner’s Brewing Company, is now one of the largest Beer 9 manufacturers in the U.S. with operations in Richmond, Virginia; 10 Berlin, Germany; and Escondido, California.