On May 2, 2019, the USPTO published an Examination of Marks for Cannabis and Cannabis-Related Goods and Services (which I’ll call the “CBD Guidelines”). The gist of it was that any application for a trademark on a cannabis-based product filed before December 20, 2018 (when the new Farm Bill was enacted), will be rejected. By…
The 2018 Farm Bill (formally The Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018) made news for allowing the cultivation of hemp. Hemp is, of course, famous for being the working member of the cannabis family, while marijuana is more like the free-spirited snowboarder. As far as the government is concerned, the hemp-marijuana continuum is measured by the amount…