TODAY’S TRADEMARK – BOMBAY SAPPHIRE

The BACARDI & COMPANY LIMITED filed for the trademark ‘BOMBAY SAPPHIRE’ with the USPTO on March 14, 2000 and was assigned registration number 2329989. Their mark was first used in January 1987.

Bombay Sapphire is a brand of gin that is produced at Laverstoke Mill in the English county of Hampshire. The distillery is owned and operated by the Bombay Spirits Company, a subsidiary of Bacardi.

The English wine trader IDV introduced the brand for the first time in 1986. Diageo transferred the brand to Bacardi in 1997. The word “Sapphire” refers to the violet-blue Star of Bombay, while “Bombay” refers to the Indian metropolis. The name comes from the gin and tonic that was made popular by the Royal Indian Armed Forces during the British Raj in colonial India. Bombay Sapphire is sold in flat-sided sapphire-coloured bottles with a label featuring a portrait of Queen Victoria.

Up until 2013, Bacardi hired G&J Greenall in Warrington, Cheshire, to handle the production and bottling of Bombay Sapphire. However, in 2011, it was reported that the production process would be relocated to Laverstoke Mill in Laverstoke, Hampshire, to a new location. Ten ingredients contribute to the drink’s flavouring: almonds, lemon peel, liquorice, juniper berries, orris root, angelica, coriander, cassia, cubeb, and grains of paradise.