Christopher R. McElwain

High Stakes: marijuana Brands and the USPTO's [Lawful] Use Registration Criterion Christopher R. McElwain I. Introduction In his history of Prohibition, author Daniel Okrent writes about the black market's effects on American drinking habits: Speakeasy liquor could have been anything from single-malt Scotch smuggled by way of Nassau to diluted embalming fluid.. In the saloon era, calling for liquor by brand name was almost unheard of; in the speakeasy era, it became a habit, first as a means of protecting oneself from alcohol of questionable origin, and secondarily as a way pf expressing one's level of taste.. When he was building his own brand, Tommy Dewar publicized the perilous alternative the liquor of unknown provenance he once characterized as squirrel whiskey, so called because, he said it will make men nutty and climb trees. It will send the average Sunday School teacher walking ten miles through three feet of snow to shoot his own parson. Naturally, there was an alternative: Drink Dewar's!

High Stakes: Marijuana Brands and the USPTO’s “[Lawful] Use” Registration Criterion Christopher R. McElwain I. Introduction In his history of Prohibition, author Daniel Okrent writes about the black market’s effects on

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