05/12: Cannabis and the Law

Cannabis and the Law

Moderator: Annette Kwok, The Cronos Group, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Speakers:
5:00 - 5:30 PM - Patents - Travis W. Bliss, Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel,
LLP, Wilmington, DE
5:30 - 6:00 PM - Trademarks - Shabnam Malek, Brand & Branch, LLP, Oakland, CA
6:00 - 6:30 PM - Ethics of Representing Cannabis Companies: Representing Clients in an Industry that is Federally Illegal with Discussion of Different Jurisdictional Rules/Letters and Areas of Caution; Bankruptcy; and Client Inability to Have a Banking Account; Delivery Issues - Henry C. Dinger, Goodwin, Boston, MA

Hosted by Emerging Technologies and Food and Drug Committees

Speakers

• Dinger, Henry

  Goodwin | Deputy General Counsel

  Henry Dinger is Deputy General Counsel and Chair of Goodwin's Ethics Advisory Committee. Mr. Dinger, who joined Goodwin in 1978, focuses on patent, copyright, trademark and trade secret litigation and advising clients concerning a range of intellectual property issues. In recent years, he has concentrated on patent issues in the pharmaceutical industry and on the representation of clients in appellate matters involving patent law, federal jurisdictional issues and First Amendment claims.
• Kwok, Annette

  Cronos Group | Senior Corporate Counsel

  Annette is Senior Corporate Counsel at Cronos Group, an innovative global cannabinoid company that aims to improve people’s lives by unlocking the full potential of cannabis.
• Bliss, Travis

  Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel | Partner

  Travis’s practice is largely focused on obtaining, licensing, monetizing, and enforcing IP protections for inventions relating to biology and life sciences, including a large focus on all types of IP protection for novel plant varieties and related inventions in the agriculture, horticulture, and cannabis/hemp industries.
• Malek, Shabnam

  Brand & Branch LLP | Partner

  Shabnam Malek is a partner at Brand & Branch LLP and co-founder and founding President of the International Cannabis Bar Association. Shabnam’s legal background is in trademark law and she cut her teeth on all things intellectual property as a “big law” associate early in her legal career.