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Federal Trademark protection doesn’t cover cannabis brands

Despite the trend of state legalization of cannabis and overwhelming market attention paid to cannabis companies, owners of cannabis businesses still cannot obtain federal trademark protection for their cannabis-related brands.

There has been a recent wave of decisions from the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) making it clear that a federal yellow light on cannabis crackdowns is not a green light for establishing federal trademark rights….more

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