Guest Blog by John L. Barone The Fracking Ban! 2014 ended on a high note. It was a momentous year for food and drink entrepreneurs who tirelessly advocated for the ban of fracking over the past decade. Previously I wrote that New York State was the legal battleground over permitting this highly controversial industrial activity. [...]
Guest Post By Charles H. Knull It isn’t often that the U.S. Supreme Court weighs in on food related issues, even more rare that we see Food & Drug Administration policies pitted against unfair competition under the Lanham Trademark Act (that’s right, a food law v. IP law smackdown). Chuck Knull has contributed the guest post [...]
Guest Post by Lev Berlin Lev Berlin at ReciPal has put together another excellent post to help food entrepreneurs figure out their product labeling. This time, he has taken a look at common food product certifications and labeling terms. Lev has once again been kind enough to let us reproduce the entire post here on [...]
Guest Post by Lev Berlin In a nutshell: It's Not Perfect. In a Bigger Nutshell Nutritional analysis, as much as it sounds like a science, is not a science. And it's not a science whether you are performing a lab analysis on your food product or running a database analysis. Your nutrition fact label is [...]
Guest Post by John Barone New York State has become a legal battleground over the industrial activity of natural gas development using the technique of high-volume hydraulic fracturing known as “hydrofracking” or “fracking.” Most recently, the Court of Appeals is considering the principle of “home rule.” Home rule authority under the New York Constitution, Article [...]
Guest Post by Chuck Knull Select a trademark for your product or service. Be prepared by having more than one mark that you like. A mark that is coined is a much stronger mark than one that describes the product or service. There are more factors in selecting a strong trademark than I can go [...]
Guest Post by Chuck Knull Select a trademark for your product or service. Be prepared by having more than one mark that you like. A mark that is coined is a much stronger mark than one that describes the product or service. There are more factors in selecting a strong trademark than I can go [...]
This is the time when plants and crops are growing and unlike last year at this time--with a drought--boy, are they growing! There will be harvests soon and there are fresh vegetables and fruits now. In America this time of year is generally one of abundance. When I was growing up in the middle of Ohio, my [...]
Certainly not Vermonters and certainly not with regard to the beloved woodchuck. Or could they? Vermont Hard Cider Co., the makers of Woodchuck Hard Cider, is duking it out in court with Woodchuck Coffee Roasters. Woodchuck (the cider people) has evidence of actual confusion among consumers over who actually makes Woodchuck coffee. Basically, their customers are asking when [...]
It is a familiar tale. You get the day’s stack of mail and start to flip through it to figure out whether it is the usual junk, there is something good (like the check you were expecting), something less pleasant but necessary (like an invoice from your supplier), or one of those out-of-the-blue pains-in-the-butt that just [...]
