Harris Bricken (LexBlog Canada)

On January 18, 2023, Cleveland Cliffs Inc. and the United Steelworkers Union filed antidumping (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) petitions against U.S. imports of certain tin- and chromium-coated steel sheet mill products (“tin mill products”) from Canada, China, Germany, Netherlands, South Korea, Taiwan, and the United Kingdom. Tin mill products are used primarily to make...

Listen HERE or stream on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Stitcher, or Soundcloud! At Harris Bricken, we keep close tabs on what is happening around the world, and we know that our friends and clients do, as well. We are happy to provide this podcast series: Global Law and Business, hosted by international attorneys Fred Rocafort and Jonathan Bench, where we look at the world...

Back in September Drake, via his Dream Crew company, applied for U.S. federal trademark protection for the warning symbol required on all recreational cannabis products that contain THC by the Health Canada. The symbol resembles a red stop sign with a black cannabis leaf and the letters “THC” prominently displayed: The application specified the following...

In a recent tweet, the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) reminded us that transporting CBD oil into Canada remains illegal. While in most places south of the 49th parallel what CBSA has to say is of little consequence, it certainly matters here in Washington State, where you’re never too far away from the Canadian border....

Currently, seven of Canada’s top ten cannabis patent holders are major multi-national pharmaceutical companies, according to a joint research project by Washington D.C.-based New Frontier Data and London-based cannabis bio-technology firm, Grow Biotech. The list includes Ciba-Geigy AG (Switzerland) with 21 patents; Pfizer Products (United States) with 14; and Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Swede

On February 4, 2019, The American Institute of Steel Construction, LLC (Petitioner) filed antidumping (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) petitions against Fabricated Structural Steel (“FSS”) from Canada, China and Mexico. You can see that petition here. Under U.S. trade laws, a domestic industry can petition the U.S. Department of Commerce (“DOC”) and U.S. International Trade...

With Canada’s new trademark law set to take effect on June 17, 2019, U.S. cannabis companies should be considering whether it makes sense for them to file for trademark protection in Canada. Most significantly for foreign applicants, a Declaration of Use will no longer be required, meaning that you do not need to actually use...

  Congratulations to all of our Canadian readers! Today is the big day! Whether you are a cannabis business owner, consumer, lawyer, doctor, advocate, or even an opponent, you can surely appreciate this historic day. Canada has bucked international trends and become the first North American country to legalize recreational, adult-use marijuana. Canada has instantly...

On the eve of the Canada’s cannabis legalization, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”) held a teleconference to explain the agency’s enforcement policy and field questions from journalists. The on-the-record teleconference featured the head of the CBP’s Office of Field Operations, which has a staff of 28,000+ employees and an operating budget of $5.2...

  Congratulations to all of our Canadian readers! Today is the big day! Whether you are a cannabis business owner, consumer, lawyer, doctor, advocate, or even an opponent, you can surely appreciate this historic day. Canada has bucked international trends and become the first North American country to legalize recreational, adult-use marijuana. Canada has instantly...

Canada’s cannabis legalization creates yet another wrinkle in the relations between the U.S. and its northern neighbor. U.S. Attorney General Jeffrey Sessions harbors a well known hatred towards anything cannabis and he clearly has no love for Canada’s Cannabis Act either. What will this mean though for Canadians who are 100% legally involved in Canada’s...

News broke recently that Tweed, Inc., a subsidiary of Canadian cannabis company Canopy Growth Corp., filed a Canadian trademark application on August 31, 2018 for CHRONIC BY DRE, which they subsequently withdrew, apologizing and calling it a mistake. As we’ve written before, the number of trademark filings covering cannabis and cannabis-related goods and services in...

News broke recently that Tweed, Inc., a subsidiary of Canadian cannabis company Canopy Growth Corp., filed a Canadian trademark application on August 31, 2018 for CHRONIC BY DRE, which they subsequently withdrew, apologizing and calling it a mistake. As we’ve written before, the number of trademark filings covering cannabis and cannabis-related goods and services in...

Yesterday, U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) introduced the Marijuana Freedom and Opportunity Act (“MFOA”). The MFOA is also co-sponsored by Senators Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Tim Kaine (D-VA), and Tammy Duckworth (D-IL). Coming on the heels of the STATES Act, the MFOA is the latest–and hopefully a successful–attempt to put an end to America’s unjust and...

Yesterday, U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) introduced the Marijuana Freedom and Opportunity Act (“MFOA”). The MFOA is also co-sponsored by Senators Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Tim Kaine (D-VA), and Tammy Duckworth (D-IL). Coming on the heels of the STATES Act, the MFOA is the latest–and hopefully a successful–attempt to put an end to America’s unjust and...

With U.S. federal trademarks being impossible to obtain for cannabis goods and services that violate the Controlled Substances Act, my trademark clients are beginning to ask questions about their options for international trademark protection. Canada, having legalized cannabis and being our closest neighbor, is usually one of the first countries my clients are interested in....

IBM is getting into the cannabis business. On November 1, the US computer manufacturer submitted a proposal to the Government of British Columbia touting the benefits of its blockchain technology for supply chain management in Canada’s nascent cannabis industry. According to IBM, blockchain will allow B.C. to “transparently capture the history of cannabis through the...

It has been a while since we looked at how our good neighbors to the north have been doing with their legalization effort. Uruguay is still the only country to implement a nation-wide legalization system including legalized sales, but it has run into some implementation problems because of lack of access to the American financial...

Tomorrow at 9 am Pacific (12 p.m. Eastern), Matt Maurer, Chair of the Cannabis Law Group at Minden Gross, LLP and author of Canada Cannabis Legal  will team up with Canna Law Blog’s own Hilary Bricken to provide a free webinar on the cannabis laws that impact cannabis industries of both the United States and Canada. Though medical marijuana...

Making good on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s 2015 campaign promises, Canada’s Liberal Party-led government last week announced a suite of bills to legalize recreational marijuana use throughout Canada. Also last week, I was on “To the Point” with Warren Olney to try to answer two big questions regarding Canada’s legalization plans: How will Canada legalize...

On May 9, 2017 at 9 am Pacific (12 p.m. Eastern), Canna Law Blog’s Hilary Bricken will team up with Matt Maurer, Chair of the Cannabis Law Group at Minden Gross, LLP and author of Canada Cannabis Legal , to present a webinar to provide a primer on the cannabis laws that impact cannabis industries in both countries. Though...

In addition to my work on corporate, finance, and transactional issues with marijuana-related businesses, I also work with my firm’s foreign direct investment group. We have been getting a lot more interest recently about foreign investment into the U.S. cannabis industry, so today’s post will be a brief primer on some of the legal issues involved in...

We have recently written blog posts on our Southern neighbor, Mexico (see Marijuana Legalization: Bad for the Cartels and Mexican Marijuana Laws: Change is Here/Coming) and with all that has been going on with Canada cannabis lately, we are going to start giving our Northern neighbor equal time. Like nearly every other country in the world, marijuana is federally...

Canada is having its 42nd general election today to decide who will be its next Prime Minister. The three candidates are Stephen Harper, the incumbent from the Conservative Party, Justin Trudeau of the Liberal Party, and Tom Mulcair of the New Democratic Party. This election holds huge implications for Canada’s future, and the future of marijuana...

One of the problems with cannabis in the United States is its balkanized legalization scheme. Recreational marijuana is legal in Colorado and Washington states, but nowhere else. About twenty other states have legalized marijuana to varying degrees. But as everyone knows, marijuana is still illegal under federal law. And that's the problem. Because growing, selling, processing and even possessing

Crossing borders with cannabis is not a good idea.