47 of these 50 United States have legalized or decriminalized some form of marijuana — yet transporting it between two legal states is still a federal crime. So, given the rule of federal law, and as we’ve said in other contexts, the USPTO will not allow registration of any trademark for products containing, in virtually…
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently published a paper called Trademarks and Patents in China: The impact of non-market factors on filing trends and IP systems. It’s an interesting read that examines not only the deluge of applications within China, but also the USPTO’s flood of applications from China: There were 5,200…