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Hemp Cannabis Products Trademark Application

Ward and Smith, P.A.

2025 USPTO Fee Changes Disproportionately Impact Hemp Businesses

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The new fee structure is presented as a neutral pricing adjustment to replace the current TEAS Plus and TEAS Standard application filing options with a single base application option that changes based on the "complexity and...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

High Stakes: Eight Tips (and One Bonus) for Cannabis Professionals on the Budding World of Trademarks

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Apologies for the cannabis puns in the title, but they are required by law. Okay, you are correct. That is not true. But it is true that trademark protection is important for individuals in the cannabis industry. Earlier this...more

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TTAB Weighs in on Registrability of CBD Trademarks

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In a precedential decision earlier this year, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board thinned some of the haze surrounding the registrability of trademarks for hemp-derived CBD products. In line with the U.S. Patent and...more

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Patenting All Things Cannabis: A Primer

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Cannabis sales in America are an economic force, legal reported sales exceeded 10 billion in 2019. Eleven states allow legal recreational use (like alcohol for those over 21) and legal for medical use in an additional 23...more

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

MarkIt to Market® - September 2020: CB – Don'ts

Creativity abounds in the CBD industry – both in the wide variety of products infused with it, and in the efforts undergone by applicants trying to circumvent the Trademark Act to register per se unlawful CBD-infused...more

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

MarkIt to Market® - November 2019: USDA's New Hemp Rules are a Step Towards Federal Trademark Registration

On October 29, 2019, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released its long-awaited interim final rule establishing a national regulatory framework for domestic hemp production, called the U.S. Domestic Hemp Production...more

Akerman LLP - Marks, Works & Secrets

Cannabis Trademarks Redux

In a case affecting the fast-growing legal cannabis industry, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (“TTAB” or “Board”) affirmed the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s (“USPTO”) refusal to register two trademarks for...more

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CBD Trademarks Out of the Weeds

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The continuing internal tension between various agencies and offices of the U.S. federal government over how to address the (seemingly) unstoppable growth of the marijuana industry in light of current federal law has been a...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

Hemp TMs Allowed, Says USPTO

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Earlier this month, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) issued Examination Guide 1-19, intended to “clarify the procedure for examining marks for cannabis and cannabis-derived goods and for services...more

Akerman LLP - Marks, Works & Secrets

Marks For Hemp and Cannabis

The United States Patent and Trademark Office recently issued a new Examination Guide relating to trademarks for cannabis and cannabis-related goods and services....more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Likely To Be Dazed and Confused – An Update

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Seyfarth Synopsis: Regular readers will recall that in March we blogged about cannabis-related trademarks. We now have an update...more

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