Cannabis businesses face special challenges, including unique hurdles when it comes to protecting their trademarks and brand elements. Cannabis retailers, distributors, cultivators, manufacturers, and service providers must be aware of the legal limitations that affect creating, developing, registering, leveraging, and enforcing cannabis-related intellectual property rights.

Crown provides experienced intellectual property counsel to those involved in the cannabis industry, including all aspects of the selection, clearance, registration, and enforcement of trademarks, both domestically and internationally.  Crown can also assist Cannabis-related businesses in securing copyright ownership for their original works, whether they be eye-catching artwork on packaging or the contents of website and social media accounts.  We provide counsel regarding agreements common to those involved in the cannabis industry, including brand/trademark license agreements, vendor/supplier agreements, distribution agreements, employment contracts, and contractor/consultant agreements, to name a few.

At Crown, we understand the contours of allowable advertising and marketing of cannabis products and services, including compliance with labeling and packaging requirements, and expertise in right of publicity licensing, enabling use of the NIL of individuals, including celebrities, in the naming and marketing of cannabis products.