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January 26, 2021
On Monday, Magistrate Judge Michael E. Hegarty recommended that the District of Colorado dismiss trademark-related claims filed by Carrick-Harvest, LLC which does business as Veritas Fine Cannabis against Veritas Farms, Inc. The petitioner filed claims of trademark infringement, false designation of origin, unfair competition, cybersquatting, and declaratory judgment in its complaint last summer.
The defendant filed a motion to dismiss the initial complaint in August, and another motion to dismiss the amended complaint in October. Judge Hegarty cited that before the 2018 Farm Bill, the USPTO would likely not have approved a cannabis-related trademark registration, and agreed with the defendants that federal trademark law applies only to “protect marks that are in substance legal under federal law,” thus protection of marijuanna related goods under trademark law would be prohibited and for cannabis-related goods protection is only r