{"id":19807,"date":"2017-09-29T02:30:13","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T10:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/09\/29\/week-in-review-cbd-trademark-suit-vermonts-fifth-mmj-licensee-dea-chief-quitting\/"},"modified":"2017-09-30T00:35:58","modified_gmt":"2017-09-30T08:35:58","slug":"week-in-review-cbd-trademark-suit-vermonts-fifth-mmj-licensee-dea-chief-quitting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/09\/29\/week-in-review-cbd-trademark-suit-vermonts-fifth-mmj-licensee-dea-chief-quitting\/","title":{"rendered":"Week in Review: CBD trademark suit, Vermont\u2019s fifth MMJ licensee &amp; DEA chief quitting"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Kristen Nichols, Bart Schaneman and John Schroyer\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Actress Jessica Alba files a trademark infringement lawsuit against a CBD supplements company, Vermont awards its fifth medical marijuana business license, and DEA chief Chuck Rosenberg is leaving his post.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a closer look at some notable developments in the marijuana industry over the past week.<span id=\"more-75829\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pretty face on an ugly problem<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/celebrity-jessica-alba-sues-cbd-line-claiming-trademark-violation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lawsuit filed by actress Jessica Alba<\/a> brought some celebrity glitz to a nagging problem for the cannabis industry: Patents, trademarks and intellectual property remain legal gray areas.<\/p>\n<p>Alba\u2019s beauty and wellness business, The Honest Co.,<\/p>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/week-review-cbd-trademark-infringement-suit-vermonts-fifth-mmj-license-dea-chief-stepping\/\">Week in Review: CBD trademark suit, Vermont\u2019s fifth MMJ licensee &amp; DEA chief quitting<\/a> is a post from: <a href=\"http:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\">Marijuana Business Daily: Financial, Legal &amp; Cannabusiness news for cannabis entrepreneurs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nRead More: <a href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/week-review-cbd-trademark-infringement-suit-vermonts-fifth-mmj-license-dea-chief-stepping\/\" target=\"_blank\">Week in Review: CBD trademark suit, Vermont\u2019s fifth MMJ licensee &amp; DEA chief quitting<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Kristen Nichols, Bart Schaneman and John Schroyer\u00a0 Actress Jessica Alba files a trademark infringement lawsuit against a CBD supplements company, Vermont awards its fifth medical marijuana business license, and DEA chief Chuck Rosenberg is leaving his post. Here\u2019s a closer look at some notable developments in the marijuana industry<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/09\/29\/week-in-review-cbd-trademark-suit-vermonts-fifth-mmj-licensee-dea-chief-quitting\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1594,1803,141,172,815,18,296,1822,10,1823,1824,29,1775,1663,1529,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19807"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19808,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19807\/revisions\/19808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}