This may be a stretch of the imagination, but marijuana may get a trademark. Stranger things could happen in the world of trademark law.<\/p>\n
This is an interesting story and one that may cause a chuckle or two, but, in the long run, may make its mark on the U.S. as a first. Some enterprising pot growers tried trademark their crop recently and were almost successful. The trademark application was actually for something called Tartukan death weed. Sounds attractive, right? Like someone would want to go right out any buy it and give it a whirl.<\/p>\n
This application was almost successful for one major reason \u2013 on April 1,2010 (not an auspicious day to do this, given it is April Fool\u2019s Day) the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office started offering a new category for medical marijuana trademarks. The category wasn\u2019t open long, but it was definitely no joke, despite the hilarity the Tartukan (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This may be a stretch of the imagination, but marijuana may get a trademark. Stranger things could happen in the world of trademark law. This is an interesting story and one that may cause a chuckle or two, but, in…<\/span><\/p>\n