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Don’t Let Your Trademark Rights Go up in Smoke! New Guidelines for Cannabis-Related Trademark Protection
As individual states have relaxed laws surrounding the cultivation, sale, and consumption of cannabis (i.e. marijuana), this multibillion-dollar industry has exploded with new products, services, and brands. However, federal law has made registration of those brands...
Considering Canada for Your Branded Products? . . . . Here’s Something You Need to Know.
Even if you don't (yet) distribute your products in Canada, there are two recent developments in Canadian trademark law that may be worth noting. First, in 2019, Canada will be moving from the a first-to-use trademark system (as we have in the US) to a...
Torts ÜBER Trademarks or Trademarks Über Torts: That Is the Question
Ken Germain and Sean Owens revisit the theory of liability of trademark licensors for the torts of their licensees in light of the development of the so-called "sharing economy."
Expert Testimony Can Strengthen Your Trademark Case
In his Bloomberg BNA article, The Brave New World of Possibly Preclusive TTAB Proceedings: How Expert Testimony Can Strengthen Your Case, Ken Germain argues that the Supreme Court's B&B v. Hargis decision in March 2015 has made it more important to have the...