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From Lab to Table: Intellectual Property Trends in Alternative Proteins

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In 2019, KFC dropped the unexpected into a frier and forever changed the quick-serve restaurant (QSR) industry. They teamed up with Beyond Meat, a leading plant-based meat company, to create a vegan chicken offering, which...more

BakerHostetler

In re Post Foods, LLC: TTAB Denies Color Mark for Post’s Fruity Pebbles

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The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board’s (Board) precedential decision to uphold a refusal to register a proposed color mark in In re Post Foods, LLC highlights the strategic and technical aspects involved in registering a...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Primer on Navigating VC for Growth in the Healthy F&B (Food & Beverage) Space

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Venture capital can be a vital source of funding and support for emerging companies in the healthy food and beverage space. In addition to providing capital, venture capitalists may offer strategic guidance, networking...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

IP Primer for Emerging Healthy F&B Companies

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Intellectual property protection is essential for emerging companies in the healthy food and beverage (“F&B”) space to attract investors and stand out from competitors. To gain a competitive edge, companies should understand...more

Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

Why Privacy And Trade Secret Law Are On A Collision Course

Can privacy law and trade secret law coexist, or is compliance with both impossible? We are experiencing the fourth industrial revolution, driven by the rise in data and connectivity, analytics and artificial intelligence....more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

The fungal revolution and IP — the next frontier

Healthier and more eco-friendly alternatives to animal-based products are becoming an increasingly popular choice with consumers. Demand is high for animal-free products that can provide a more sustainable protein substitute...more

Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

Foodtech Patents: Who’s on the Board and What Moves are they Making?

The alternative (“alt-“) animal products industry is growing increasingly more popular each year, causing an increased demand in foods made from plant proteins or cultured in a lab. As more alt-animal products emerge, the...more

Clark Hill PLC

Brand Protection and Strategy for Food and Beverage Companies

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Post-pandemic, food and beverage companies must now navigate a recessionary environment and runaway inflation. Thus, building, maintaining, and enforcing strong brands are more important than ever if a company is to maintain...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Quick Guide to JVs in the Alternative Protein Industry

This article is part of our series on the alternative protein industry, which explores legal considerations relevant to companies and investors in the alternative protein space. The purpose of this article is to provide a...more

Greenberg Glusker LLP

From Soup to Nuts: A Round-Up of Legal Guidance for Food & Beverage Companies

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The Los Angeles area is home to iconic food innovators, family-run restaurants of every ethnic stripe, and competition-winning restaurateurs. A successful restaurant or food and beverage company is also a business enterprise...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Patent Protection in the FoodTech Space

The FoodTech industry is highly competitive and it can be challenging for companies to maintain a competitive edge. One way a FoodTech company can remain competitive is to seek patent protection for their innovations. This...more

McCarter & English, LLP

A Refresher On The Importance Of Trademarks And Trade Dress In The Food And Beverage Industry

The quality, taste, and appearance of food and beverage products are important, but there are other aspects of those products that also contribute to, and even sustain, their commercial success. In particular, the...more

Kilpatrick

RCG Webinar | Where's the Beef?

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Ensuring a healthy food industry supply chain is vital as we cope with the effects of the current pandemic. With shortages in some areas and massive waste in others, the industry must consider ways to pivot their thinking and...more

International Lawyers Network

A Recipe for Patent Protection: Are food products patentable?

In the past several years, the food and beverage space has seen an explosion of innovation—alternative meat products, plant-based dairy and protein alternatives, CBD- and collagen-infused everything, and functional foods and...more

Akerman LLP - Marks, Works & Secrets

Prior Use Under the Pan-American Convention

The United States is a party to the General Inter-American Convention for Trade Mark and Commercial Protection of Washington, 1929 (“Pan-American Convention”), along with Colombia, Cuba, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua,...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Pardon Me, Co-Packaging Partner Accused of Stealing Dijon Mustard Recipes

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On February 25, 2020, Plaintiff Mustard Girl LLC (“Mustard Girl”), an award-winning mustard manufacturer, filed a lawsuit in the Circuit Court of Cook County for damages against its former co-packing partner, Olds Products...more

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

Food & Beverage Litigation Update l February 2020 #3

LEGISLATION, REGULATIONS & STANDARDS - FDA Releases Guidance on Intentional Adulteration - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released the third and final installment of its draft guidance on intentional...more

King & Spalding

The UK and the WTO Post-Brexit

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I. INTRODUCTION - The World Trade Organization (WTO) and the treaty instruments that establish it and govern trading relations between its Members have – strangely – figured prominently in the run-up to the Brexit...more

Ladas & Parry LLP

[Webinar] IP Basics For The Food & Beverage Industry - January 30th, 12:30 pm ET

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Join the Ladas & Parry Food & Beverage Industry Group on January 30th to learn the basics of intellectual property as it relates to protecting what is special about your food industry products. Topics include: • Appearance...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Don’t Spill Your Trade Secrets: Protecting Your Competitive Advantage in the Food and Beverage Industry (Part 2 of 2)

In the race to get new products to market, food and beverage businesses sometimes neglect their critically important intangible assets — their valuable trade secrets. Through advance planning and diligence, businesses in that...more

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

Food & Beverage Litigation Update l July 2019 #3

LEGISLATION, REGULATIONS & STANDARDS - AGs Submit Comment to FDA on Cannabis - A group of 38 state attorneys general have submitted a letter to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in response to the agency’s...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Don’t Spill Your Trade Secrets: Protecting Your Competitive Advantage in the Food and Beverage Industry (Part 1 of 2)

In the race to get new products to market, food and beverage businesses sometimes neglect their critically important intangible assets — their valuable trade secrets. Through advance planning and diligence, businesses in that...more

Hogan Lovells

CJEU on products evoking a designation of origin: Don Quixote only rides the plains of La Mancha!

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The use of figurative signs and words that evoke a geographical area which is associated with a protected designation of origin may constitute an unlawful evocation of the latter. This was the CJEU’s conclusion in its...more

Hogan Lovells

French legal and regulatory update - April 2019

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The Paris office of Hogan Lovells is pleased to provide this English language edition of our monthly e-newsletter, which offers a legal and regulatory update covering France and Europe for April 2019. ...more

King & Spalding

Design, Designation and Regulatory: Structuring Considerations and Regulatory Due Diligence in EU Food and Beverage Transactions

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When structuring and assessing transactions in the food and beverage sector in a European context, a purchaser must consider and evaluate several EU-specific requirements in order to ensure a successful transaction with...more

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