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

Tue Apr 30 21:31:29 EDT 2024

With all due respect to my counterpart professionals, is this really a First Amendment concern or is it really about trademark practitioners biting at the bit to be able to file whatever marks for whatever product or service regardless of the legal, moral or other issues regarding that product or service?  The reality is that there is a lot of $$$$ on the line: I can only imagine the thousand and thousands of trademark applications that would be filed if the door were open for marijuana and illicit drugs, not to mention other products and services.  How about THE LAUNDRY for laundering money?  TAKE’M OUT for a hitman business?  Yes, I am being facetious; but, how far are we from this?  Is not the driving force behind this question really a matter of money as opposed to freedom of speech?  

Ed Welch

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

I don’t think the First Amendment would be implicated in a direct challenge. It’s an ultra vires rule without any textual support from the Lanham Act. No need to base it on 1A.  

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On Apr 30, 2024, at 7:48 PM, Edward Timberlake <ed at timberlakelaw.com <mailto:ed at timberlakelaw.com> > wrote:

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

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On Tue, Apr 30, 2024 at 2:38 PM Chelsie Spencer via E-trademarks <e-trademarks at oppedahl-lists.com <mailto: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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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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Subject: Re: [E-trademarks] FW: NEWS ALERT: US drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuana in historic shift 

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 <e-trademarks at oppedahl-lists.com <mailto:e-trademarks at oppedahl-lists.com> > wrote:

Does this mean we can expect cannabis marks to become registrable? 

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