Selling CBD Products? The U.S. Supreme Court Just Raised the Stakes on Trademark Claims May 21, 2020 AggregatedNews Hemp Policy & Legal 0 Comments by Jesse Mondry, Attorney at Harris Bricken Several months I wrote an article about CBD and false advertising under the Lanham Act and noted an important case on the docket of the U.S. Supreme Court concerning damages in trademark cases, Romag… Read More→
CBD Claims: Federal Enforcement Actions Are No Longer Limited to Warning Letters April 30, 2020 AggregatedNews Hemp Policy & Legal 0 Comments by Nathalie Bougenies, Attorney at Harris Bricken The online sales of cannabidiol (“CBD”), including hemp-derived CBD products, have ramped up in response to the coronavirus (“COVID-19”) pandemic. Regrettably, during these uncertain times, a handful of CBD companies have been taking… Read More→
Federal Solutions to Marijuana-Based Trademark Issues: Part 2 April 15, 2020 Jeffrey Johnson Intellectual Property 0 Comments In the first article in our three-part series, Legalized But Not Recognized: Brand Protection Without Federal Registration, we provided a brief overview of the obstacles cannabis businesses face in protecting their brand identity: i.e., the absence of a right to… Read More→
CBD Products and False Advertising Under the Lanham Act October 14, 2019 AggregatedNews Hemp Policy & Legal 0 Comments By Jesse Mondry, Attorney at Harris Bricken A few weeks ago, I wrote a Hemp/CBD litigation forecast in which I predicted that at some point a CBD company will make use of the Lanham Act by claiming that a competitor… Read More→