This blog has made it a whole 2 months since the last post about Minnesota’s Adult-Use Cannabis Law, and now it is time to get back into it! On July 31st, Office of Cannabis Management [OCM] put out its first draft of the proposed rules related to adult-use cannabis. In its announcement, OCM made clear … Read more
This is Erin setting the scene for this week’s post. It’s written by Carter, our high school administrative assistant. It was spurred by our firm’s recent discussions about 1) our culture and how it impacts our actions, and 2) what a target client is. I was happy to see that our people are listening, thinking, … Read more
As a small business owner, there are lot of plates that you are constantly spinning. How are your customers? Employees? What’s going on with your vendors? Your distributors? And on and on. One thing that often slips through is the actual status of the company. We had an intern this summer, and one of her … Read more
As the 2024 deadline approaches, ensuring your business complies with FinCEN’s Beneficial Ownership Reporting requirements is crucial.
As promised in an earlier blog post about Bulleit, bottle shapes, and blurring (“dilution” was the word I mostly used last time, but I was really eager for that alliteration), I am back with an updated blog post. As a recap to the earlier post, the case involves Diageo, the company that owns Bulleit Frontier … Read more
Remember when I said that we’d have some follow-up to Carter’s Big Mac post? Well, here is one of those posts! Today, we’ll talk about what it means to “use” a trademark. Trademarks are creatures of the relationship between the source of a product and its customers. They don’t exist without the product or the … Read more
A previous version of this blog post failed to take into account some nuance and important facts, namely that Healthy Soap (R) was actually registered on the USPTO’s Supplemental Register. Thanks to our readers for bringing this to my attention and for allowing us to expand on some important trademark basics. As the father of … Read more
Lethina Stephens is a highly organized and analytical Program Manager with extensive experience in managing global SDLC Waterfall and AGILE projects. Certified as a Project Management Professional (PMP) and a SCRUM Master, she excels in fast-paced and evolving environments, particularly in software and hardware SaaS, fintech, and mobile applications. Lethina has a proven track record … Read more
I like trademark law because it often just makes sense. For example, let’s talk about the requirement that a mark must be in use in order to obtain protection. For a trademark to be registered in the United States, it has to actually be used in a way that a customer sees the mark when … Read more
Working here at Ogden Glazer + Schaefer, you get to hear about all the interesting legal battles that happen around the world. Here is one that I am surprised did not get shared with you. [Note from Erin: This post was written by Carter, our high school assistant. He is not a lawyer. He is … Read more