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178 Trademark Registrations Issued to Indiana Entities in November 2023

Indiana Intellectual Property Law

Trademark Office issued the following 178 trademark registrations to persons and businesses in Indiana in November 2023 based on applications filed by Indiana trademark attorneys: Reg.

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How To Protect Your Cannabis Trademarks in a Legal Landscape That Is Half-Baked

LexBlog IP

In our previous post, we discussed how a cannabis business can take steps to avoid potential trademark infringement claims. In this release, we will discuss how a cannabis business can use trademarks for brand protection – despite the fact that federal law prohibits filing a cannabis-related trademark.

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Doobie-ous Competition: How a Cannabis Company Can Use Employment Agreements to Protect Intellectual Property

LexBlog IP

In the trademark context, for instance, an employee can quit their job at a Michigan cannabis company, move to California, and establish an identical cannabis company—using the exact same trademarks and branding. He can be reached at 248-631-2050 or MJotanovic@dickinsonwright.com. His bio can be viewed here.

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Avoiding a Bad Trip: How Cannabis Companies Can Mitigate the Risk of an Infringement Lawsuit

LexBlog IP

Yet cannabis businesses continue to grapple with protecting their brands, as trademark protection at the federal level remains unavailable. The current hodgepodge of state trademark regimes will undoubtedly result in litigation and a race to register federal marks once Congress legalizes cannabis.

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Juneteenth: My Story and Black America’s Ongoing Pursuit toward Progress

U.S. Department of Commerce

Patent and Trademark Office. As the Kellogg Foundation has found, if we close the yawning racial gap in incomes of Americans, we will increase our national GDP by a massive $8 trillion by 2050. Their son, also an entrepreneur, went on to become one of our nation's first Black patent-holders through Commerce's U.S.

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Cambodia and its RCEP Accession

IP and Legal Filings

By 2050, the predicted $0.5 Additionally, it requires Cambodia to maintain online databases with data on applications and registrations for patents, industrial designs, and trademarks. quadrillion worldwide (GDP, PPP) may be accounted for by half of the global economy as a whole thanks to the RCEP.