Effective Solutions in a Complex Space

Marketing and branding are Distinctive Leaf’s™ core competences. We are passionate about the cannabis industry and are motivated to provide solutions to challenges associated with protecting cannabis brands.

Regardless of your product or service, if you have a brand, you should protect it with trademarks or services marks at the state and/or federal level. Regardless of the role you play in the cannabis industry, if you do not yet have a brand, you should establish one and seek trademark or service mark protection.

Once a person has selected his or her new business name, product name, logo or slogan, in the cannabis industry it is critical, yet challenging, to obtain U.S. federal trademark protection for a trademark or service mark. Distinctive Leaf™ determines whether your name, logo or slogan is in fact available for statutory protection and lawful for you to apply for and register as a federal trademark for your business or organization.

Foremost, a cannabis (marijuana or hemp) trademark or service applicant will want to make sure that the goods and services are lawful to register under applicable trademark law. Second, an applicant should ensure that a name, logo or slogan does not infringe upon someone else’s trademark rights; so, the applicant may protect itself from challenges from other businesses, organizations and people claiming to have superior rights or that the applicant has infringed on their intellectual property. Distinctive Leaf’s™ comprehensives services will increase the chances that the cannabis business’s name, logo or slogan is available for you to use in the complicated cannabis (marijuana and hemp) space.