Emerging From Shadows, Pot Industry Tries to Build Brands
Denver — Snoop Dogg has his own line of marijuana. So does Willie Nelson. Melissa Etheridge has a marijuana-infused wine. As the fast-growing marijuana industry emerges from the black market and starts looking like a mainstream industry, there’s a scramble to brand and trademark pot products. The celebrity endorsements are just the latest attempt to add cachet to a line of weed. Snoop Dogg calls his eight strains of weed “Dank From...
Sausage-Maker Wins Brat Brawl
Milwaukee — Two Wisconsin firms have settled their trademark dispute over which one has the right to advertise its signature sausages as backyard bratwurst, on terms favorable to Klement’s Sausage Co. U.S. District Judge J.P. Stadtmueller signed off on the agreement last week, barring Johnsonville Sausage LLC from ever again marketing a “Backyard Grilled Brat.” Johnsonville agreed in the settlement to abandon the trademark it sought...
