[E-trademarks] FW: NEWS ALERT: US drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuana in historic shift

Tue Apr 30 20:47:56 EDT 2024

If somebody can come up with a First Amendment angle to the Lawful Use Rule
perhaps a court will hear it.

Insincerely,

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On Tue, Apr 30, 2024 at 2:38 PM Chelsie Spencer via E-trademarks <
e-trademarks at oppedahl-lists.com> wrote:

> To add to this, the better questions the trademark community needs to ask
> itself is why we continue to permit the Lawful Use Rule, which was created
> by the agency absent a statutory basis and which has never been directly
> challenged in court, to stand.
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> *From:* Chelsie Spencer <cspencer at ritterspencercheng.com>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, April 30, 2024 1:36 PM
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> legal advice. <e-trademarks at oppedahl-lists.com>; heidi8 at gmail.com <
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> *Subject:* Re: [E-trademarks] FW: NEWS ALERT: US drug control agency will
> move to reclassify marijuana in historic shift
>
> No. Reclassifying into Schedule III qualifies cannabis for use in approved
> pharmaceutical formulations. The USPTO will pivot to issuing the FDCA
> refusals that hemp companies now receive. Certain psychedelics should be
> the only substances still receiving CSA Schedule I refusals (for now).
>
> I just wrote an article on this last week in the World Trademark Review.
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> *From:* E-trademarks <e-trademarks-bounces at oppedahl-lists.com> on behalf
> of Heidi Tandy via E-trademarks <e-trademarks at oppedahl-lists.com>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, April 30, 2024 1:28 PM
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> *Cc:* Heidi Tandy <heidi8 at gmail.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [E-trademarks] FW: NEWS ALERT: US drug control agency will
> move to reclassify marijuana in historic shift
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> I’m trying to start a discussion of this on Twitter. I do hope so!
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> On Tue, Apr 30, 2024 at 2:26 PM Alex Butterman via E-trademarks <
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> Does this mean we can expect cannabis marks to become registrable?
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> marijuana in historic shift*
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> *BREAKING NEWS    |    April 30 2024 *
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> The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will move to reclassify marijuana
> as a less dangerous drug, The Associated Press has learned, a historic
> shift to generations of American drug policy that could have wide
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