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Cannabis Business ConfidentialTrademarking in the Cannabis Space: Safeguard Your Brand as the Industry GrowsIn the cannabis industry (or any industry), trademarks are your first defense against copycats and confusion. A distinctive brand identity ensures consumers know who you are while laying the groundwork for geographic expansion, customer loyalty, and potential acquisitions.
Generic names or overly familiar symbols (ahem, bud leaves) may seem appealing, but they’re nearly impossible to protect—leaving your business exposed to risk.
Trademarking cannabis comes with unique challenges due to federal restrictions, making state registrations and creative strategies essential.
From protecting your core products to leveraging trademarks for ancillary goods like merchandise, every...2024-12-161h 00Cannabis Business ConfidentialTrademarking in the Cannabis Space: Safeguard Your Brand as the Industry GrowsIn the cannabis industry (or any industry), trademarks are your first defense against copycats and confusion. A distinctive brand identity ensures consumers know who you are while laying the groundwork for geographic expansion, customer loyalty, and potential acquisitions.
Generic names or overly familiar symbols (ahem, bud leaves) may seem appealing, but they’re nearly impossible to protect—leaving your business exposed to risk.
Trademarking cannabis comes with unique challenges due to federal restrictions, making state registrations and creative strategies essential.
From protecting your core products to leveraging trademarks for ancillary goods like merchandise, every...2024-12-161h 00Cannabis Business ConfidentialTrademarking in the Cannabis Space: Safeguard Your Brand as the Industry GrowsIn the cannabis industry (or any industry), trademarks are your first defense against copycats and confusion. A distinctive brand identity ensures consumers know who you are while laying the groundwork for geographic expansion, customer loyalty, and potential acquisitions.
Generic names or overly familiar symbols (ahem, bud leaves) may seem appealing, but they’re nearly impossible to protect—leaving your business exposed to risk.
Trademarking cannabis comes with unique challenges due to federal restrictions, making state registrations and creative strategies essential.
From protecting your core products to leveraging trademarks for ancillary goods like merchandise, every...2024-12-161h 00
Cure8'd ConversationsSeth Gardenswartz of Blackgarden Law on Cannabis Law and the Market in New Mexico
Seth Gardenswartz, Partner at Blackgarden Law, joins Cure8 CEO Eric Schlissel to discuss, first and foremost, Seth's specialty of cannabis patents and intellectual property protection. He talks about what cannabis businesses can do to protect their brands and IP, even though you can't file cannabis patents at the federal level.
The two also discuss the legal aspects of starting and running a cannabis business that all entrepreneurs in the industry should know. Seth also talks about how the market is going in his home base of New Mexico, one of the most competitive in the country but also one...2024-05-301h 18
MITA Unshackled Cannabis Business PodcastNew Mexico's Latest Cannabis Law Update!The podcast discussion features Max Juhasz from Dope SEO, and Stanislava Ludmilin as the co-host, Matthew Kopelman, the founder and owner of Score 420 LLC with seven locations, and Seth Gartenswartz, the co-founder of Black Garden Law, a boutique business law firm in Albuquerque. The conversation revolves around the cannabis industry in New Mexico. MITA's "Unshackled" Episode 13 State-by-State Overview: New Mexico Recorded at MJBizCon 2023 Matt shares his journey in the cannabis business, starting with a legal challenge in Washington and later expanding to New Mexico. He emphasizes the challenges faced, including legal issues, tight finances, and the need for adaptation...2024-02-0831 min
To Be Blunt155 What Can I do To Protect My Cannabis Brand For Longevity? With Seth Gardenswartz of Black Garden Law"The brand is kind of the representation of all of the good or bad things that the customer or the purchasing public perceives around the brand" - Seth GardenswartzIn this episode of To Be Blunt, host Shayda Torabi and guest Seth Gardenswartz, founder of Black Garden Law, explore the art of creating and safeguarding a compelling brand, understanding business goals, legal insights, and effective marketing practices. Discover valuable strategies to develop your brand in the competitive cannabis market, including quality products, federal trademark protection, local community engagement, and strategic partnerships.2023-08-071h 07
Craft Beer ProfessionalsFall 2021 Virtual Conference Preview Panel 10-12-21In this conversation we will hear from several of your peers discussing the past year, challenges, surprises, strategies for success, and predictions moving forward.
This conversation features:
Pal Ingebrigtsen - PLAATO
Scott Schmidt - Market The Brew
Seth Gardenswartz - Blackgardenlaw PC
Thomas Tredennick - La Verne Brewing
Fall Virtual Conference | October 18-20, 2021
http://rsvp.craftbeerprofessionals.org/
CBP Connects
2-Day Workshop | 3 Nightly Receptions | Norfolk, Virginia
February 7-9, 2022
2021-10-121h 01
From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for LifeShabbat Sermon: Seth or Abraham? with Rabbi Wes GardenswartzOur Torah reading today is loaded with characters who get lots of press: God creating the heaven and the earth; Adam and Eve and the serpent in the garden of Eden; Cain and Abel. All these stories are well known. But the character who speaks most powerfully to us now, in our time—in month eight of the pandemic, in the last month before an epochally divisive election—the person who has the most to say to us now is the one person most of us have never heard of. His name is Seth.
Adam and Eve had two s...2020-10-1718 min
Running Restaurants107: 3 Small Business Disaster Response Tools for Your RestaurantJaime Oikle from RunningRestaurants.com is joined by partners Seth Gardenswartz & Candice Owens of Blackgarden Law in this session which covers three possible ways your restaurant may be able to find some relief in the craziness of the COVID-19 crisis. You can find Seth & Candice at https://www.blackgardenlaw.com. And stay tuned to http://www.runningrestaurants.com for more updates.2020-03-2524 min
Custom Apparel StartupsEpisode 73 – Copyrights and Trademarks in the Custom T-Shirt Business
Businesscopyrightscustom apparel businesscustom t-shirt businesslawpodcasttrademarks
This Episode
Mark Stephenson & Marc Vila
Seth Gardenswartz
customapparelstartups.com
CAS Podcast
ColDesi
You Will Learn
The difference between trademarks and copy rights
How you can tell if your design is probably in violation
Penalties possible violating someone else’s intellectual property rights
Whether or not do-it-yourself solutions will do
Resources & Links
Blackgarden Law
Article: Finding a T-Shirt Artist
Custom App...2018-04-131h 09