Products Of The Mind: A Conversation About The Intersection Of Business + Creativity

If you live or do business in the United States and you want to protect the brand name of your product or service, the typical approach is to register that brand name as a trademark with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). But what if that product isn't exactly legal? For a review of the basics of trademark law, I suggest you check out Episode 2 of Products of the Mind: "What Is a Trademark?" The USPTO has noted that the Controlled Substances Act: ...prohibits, among other things, manufacturing, distributing, dispensing, or possessing certain controlled substances including marijuana and marijuana-based preparations...The CSA also makes it unlawful to sell, offer for sale, or use any facility of interstate commerce to transport drug paraphernalia, i.e., “any equipment, product, or material of any kind which is primarily intended or designed for use in manufacturing, compounding, converting, concealing, producing, processing, preparing, injecting, ingesting, inhaling, or otherwise introduci