24 June 2022 Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. To date, there have been relatively few patent proceedings relating to cannabis patents and no court has issued a finding of infringement. With the interest in potential utility…
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To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. Executive Summary Well into the third year of the global pandemic, with record inflation and the uncertain outcomes of geopolitical issues roiling global markets, the cannabis industry has nevertheless continued upon a similar path as recent years. Public polling continues…
On June 7, 2022, the Council of the District of Columbia passed the Cannabis Employment Protections Act of 2022 (the “Bill”). If signed into law by DC Mayor Muriel Bowser, the Bill would prohibit employers, with certain exceptions, from “refus[ing] to hire, terminat[ing] from employment, suspend[ing]fail[ing] to promote, demot[ing]or penalize[ing] an individual “due to such…
14 June 2022 Foley & Lardner To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. Washington, DC is poised to join a growing number of state and local jurisdictions that restrict employers from testing employees for cannabis use as a condition of employment. On Tuesday, June 7,…
To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. Thailand’s cannabis cultivation licensing scheme for the country’s transition toward legalization of the plant has now come to an end. The Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) announced in theGovernment Gazettethat from June 9, 2022, “only cannabis extract with tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)…
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08 June 2022 Littler Mendelson To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. On May 25, 2022, Rhode Island Governor Daniel McKee signed into law the Rhode Island Cannabis Act, which legalized recreational cannabis. As a result, Rhode Island has joined a small but growing minority…
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07 June 2022 Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. In a recent decision, AK Futures LLC v. Boyd St. Distro, LLC, No. 21-56133, the 9th Circuit ruled that products containing delta-8 tetrahydrocannabinol (delta-8 THC) can fall within the statutory…
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A precedent-setting judgment by the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) of the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on January 10, 2022, allowed two oppositions to succeed, which were filed by the well-known music application SPOTIFY, against trademark applications filed by US Software Inc. for the name / mark POTIFY/. Read on to find…
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