Responding to USPTO Office Actions – Challenges for Cannabis Companies
USPTO trademark registrations are an important way for cannabis companies to protect and grow their brands nationally. While cannabis companies still cannot register trademarks that identify goods or services related to manufacturing, distributing, dispensing, and possessing cannabis and cannabis-based preparations because cannabis, and its psychoactive component, Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), remain classified as Schedule I controlled substances under the federal Controlled Substances
Josh Zetlin
January 11, 2022