Recorded Webinar—Safeguarding Trademarks and Consumers from Rogue Edible-Cannabis Sellers
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Panelists:
Stacy Papadopoulos, Interim CEO, General Counsel, and Senior Vice President, Consumer Brands Association
Andrew J. Kline, Firmwide Co-Chair, Cannabis Industry Group, Perkins Coie LLP
Program Description:
This program—the third in WLF’s Taking the Initiative on IP Protection series—addresses the consumer-product and cannabis industries’ strategic response to the proliferation of THC-containing edibles sold in packaging that resembles well-known candy and other food brands. Our panelists will discuss the extent of the practice’s threat to legitimate businesses and public health, the challenges of trademark protection through litigation, and the role that federal and state law enforcement and other agencies can play. They will also discuss the potential for legislative solutions at the federal and state levels.
About the Taking the Initiative on IP Protection Series:
WLF’s Taking the Initiative on IP Protection webinar series features moderated discussions with industry leaders on businesses’ use of strategic litigation, voluntary agreements, and other proactive initiatives to safeguard their intellectual property. The series is premised on two notions. First, the free-enterprise system depends on private-property ownership and the right to enjoy the benefits from contributions to scientific and intellectual advancement. Second, intellectual-property owners cannot rely solely on government-initiated criminal or civil enforcement of intellectual property laws.
Panelists
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Andrew is senior counsel to Perkins Coie LLP practicing in the firm's Denver, CO office. He is Co-Chair of the Firmwide Cannabis Industry Group, responsible for matters involving almost all aspects of cannabis law and policy. Drawing on his nearly 15 years of experience as a federal prosecutor, policy advisor to then-Vice President Biden and counsel to then-Senator Biden, and service in the Enforcement Bureau at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Andrew represents clients in some of most sensitive and challenging areas of law and policy. He previously served as served as public policy director for the National Cannabis Industry Association.
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Stacy is general counsel and senior vice president of operations and initiatives for the Consumer Brands Association. She also currently serves as interim CEO. She previously served as general counsel and senior vice president of industry services of the American Gaming Association (AGA) and prior to that as as a corporate attorney, focusing on corporate governance and risk management, securities disclosure, executive compensation, corporate transactions and nonprofit law.
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