Beer Stubby
The beer stubby, or koozie "beer hugger", or "beer huggie", is a misnomer as it is not always used for an alcoholic beverage. Other names are "coastie", "cozy" "coosie", "coolie", "coldy-holdy", "cancooler", "beer sleeve, and "bottle jacket". In Australia it is called a "stubby holder" due to the shape of the 375 millilitres (13.2 imp fl oz; 12.7 US fl oz) bottles of beer being shorter andfatter compared to the more slender 330 millilitres (12 imp fl oz; 11 US fl oz) bottles.
The name "Koozie" was coined as a trademark, according to Norwood Promotional Products. It was originally a trademark of the Texas company Radio Cap Corporation (RCC). RCC registered the trademark in1980; but the registration lapsed in 2001. Norwood had bought RCC in 1989, and it re-registered thetrademark in February 2004.
Norwood has been in a dispute, on-and-off over several years in the 2000s, over the Koozie trademark status with an online retail business called Kustom Koozies. Norwood asserts that names such as beer hugger, can cooler, and huggie do not infringe its trademark, but that koozie, coozie, coolie, and cozy do. Kustom Koozies asserted in 2005 that the trademark hadbecome generic. In the years since, Norwood and Kustom Koozies came to a licensing agreement over the use of the trademark, but by 2009 they were in dispute again, as Kustom Koozies (unsuccessfully) attempted to cancel the trademark licensing agreement in response to Norwood instructing it to make certain changes to its website, one of which was that "Koozie" should be set out in all-capital letters as "KOOZIE".
The name "Koozie" was coined as a trademark, according to Norwood Promotional Products. It was originally a trademark of the Texas company Radio Cap Corporation (RCC). RCC registered the trademark in1980; but the registration lapsed in 2001. Norwood had bought RCC in 1989, and it re-registered thetrademark in February 2004.
Norwood has been in a dispute, on-and-off over several years in the 2000s, over the Koozie trademark status with an online retail business called Kustom Koozies. Norwood asserts that names such as beer hugger, can cooler, and huggie do not infringe its trademark, but that koozie, coozie, coolie, and cozy do. Kustom Koozies asserted in 2005 that the trademark hadbecome generic. In the years since, Norwood and Kustom Koozies came to a licensing agreement over the use of the trademark, but by 2009 they were in dispute again, as Kustom Koozies (unsuccessfully) attempted to cancel the trademark licensing agreement in response to Norwood instructing it to make certain changes to its website, one of which was that "Koozie" should be set out in all-capital letters as "KOOZIE".