Hot sauce and glue: Why marijuana and hemp’s intellectual property rights are getting hotter and stickier
By Kristen Nichols
A flurry of marijuana and hemp lawsuits are roiling the cannabis industry’s confusing intellectual property landscape, with trademark and trade-secret fights signaling big changes for the business.
The legal disputes – from Ohio to California – show that long-simmering tensions over intellectual property in the cannabis sector are growing as the industry matures.