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When building a successful brand, businesses may more often focus on protecting their name, logo, and other trademarks, but a brand’s value can extend far beyond these traditional identifiers. The colors, packaging, product design, and overall visual presentation that customers associate with your business can become valuable assets of their own. This is where trade dress protection comes into play.

For many businesses, the way a product looks is just as important as the product itself. A distinctive design…
Continue Reading Trade Dress Matters: Protecting Your Brand’s Look, Feel, and Competitive Advantage

If you are of a certain age, and occupy that certain point on the nerd spectrum, you’re probably familiar with Commander Keen.

Commander Keen was one of the first major games created by the team that would later become id Software, the company responsible for Wolfenstein 3D, DOOM, and Quake. Those games did more than sell a lot of copies. They helped turn the first-person shooter into one of the most dominant genres in video games, with Wolfenstein…
Continue Reading Keen Dreams: Moonlighting, Softdisk, and the Unexpected Road to Castle Wolfenstein

We at Ogden Glazer + Schaefer literally have a written directive to “geek out.” That may be about legal stuff or other stuff. But be passionate and interested and maybe a tiny bit obsessed. One of those things that I geek out about is geographic indications. So be warned. Geographical indicators are special marks that help indicate that certain places in the world imbibe things that come from that region with unique attributes. Roquefort cheese and blue cheese…
Continue Reading Love for the Driftless

With another blog post, there is another opportunity to touch on the recent changes to cannabis law in Minnesota. Check out Part 1 at the link here. With the introduction aside, we can turn to some changes from the Cannibus Bill (SF 4401) to the licensing rules that seem to address some practical issues around licenses and how they change over time.

Use It or Lose It: Qualified Applicant Status Now Expires

Every cannabis licensee must complete…
Continue Reading Minnesota Adult Use Cannabis: Tweaking Licensing Rules for the Real World 

By Nick Hierlmeier

This weekend was the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States. You may not have known that unless you read Erin’s blog post from last week. 😉

While we took last week and this past weekend to celebrate our country, let’s take this week to celebrate our state.

Before we start, I’ll answer a few questions that I know will come up:

  • Yes, I know Wisconsin’s anniversary was two months ago.
  • No, OG+S isn’t 

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Continue Reading A Non-Controversial Blog About Wisconsin

This week we are celebrating the birth of our nation – 250 years of the great experiment of the democratic republic of United States of America. It has been 250 years since we adopted the Declaration of Independence. 250 years of declaring the right to “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” and “That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to…
Continue Reading Celebration of the Great Experiment

We have all been waiting, with something close to bated breath, for a fix to the looming closure of the THC “loophole” in November. Today, we at least have a small glimmer of potential hope worth watching.

Rep. Beth Van Duyne of Texas has circulated a draft bill called the Hemp-Derived Beverage Regulatory Clarity Act. You can read the draft bill here.

At a high level, the bill would put hemp beverages under the authority of the Alcohol…
Continue Reading Hemp Beverage Update and Potential TTB Oversight

With the 2026 FIFA World Cup set to be the largest tournament in history, businesses across the United States, Canada, and Mexico are preparing marketing campaigns designed to capitalize on the excitement surrounding the event. However, before incorporating World Cup-themed branding into advertisements, promotions, or social media content, businesses should understand that FIFA aggressively protects its intellectual property rights.

FIFA owns an extensive portfolio of trademarks, copyrights, and other intellectual property associated with the tournament, including official names, logos,…
Continue Reading Avoid the Red Card: What Businesses Need to Know About FIFA’s Intellectual Property Rules During the 2026 World Cup

Another session of the Minnesota legislature has come to a close, which brings with a new round of changes to Minnesota’s cannabis laws. With this session, SF 4401 was the omnibus cannabis bill that did the heavy lifting when it was signed by the governor at the end of the legislative session. To keep things interesting (and shorter), I will call it the “Cannibus Bill” throughout. In this post (and likely multiple parts to follow), I will break down…
Continue Reading Minnesota Adult Use Cannabis: Cannabis Cleanup

Think of all the travel centers you know. Now, think of which one of those has the largest convenience store with 75,593 square feet. If you still cannot figure it out, think of the smiling beaver wearing a red hat with a yellow circular background. You guessed it, we are going to talk about Buc-ee’s!

Buc-ee’s is a cultural phenomenon that, despite having over 50 locations and spanning over 12 states, has a legal team that actively monitors …
Continue Reading Don’t Mess With the Beaver: What the Buc-ee’s Lawsuit Says About Trademark Enforcement 

Memorial Day weekend in Wisconsin usually involves grilling, yard projects that immediately become more complicated than expected, and at least one person insisting they can totally finish rebuilding the deck before Monday night.

Underneath all of that though, Memorial Day is serious. It is a day set aside to remember people who died serving this country and the idea behind it: self-government. Messy, imperfect, occasionally exhausting self-government, but self-government nonetheless.

That system only works if people believe their participation…
Continue Reading Happy Memorial Day

Vector Trio Astronaut Silhouettes with Guns on an Alien Planet Stock Illustration
Vector Trio Astronaut Silhouettes with Guns on an Alien Planet Stock Illustration

Dua Lipa sued Samsung for using a photograph of her on boxes of TVs sold by Samsung. She accused Samsung of copyright and trademark infringement and of violating her “right of publicity”. The photograph is one of Dua Lipa, but more importantly for the copyright claim, she owns the copyright to the photo. Without her permission to use it, they have to show why they can use it. Given they were using the photograph on the packages of the…
Continue Reading Get Permission, OK?

At some point in every organization, legal feedback arrives at the wrong moment. The team is close to launch, a deal is almost across the line, and then counsel comes back with redlines, qualifiers, replacement language, and things that cannot be said the way they were written.

It lands as interruption. The work was moving, a decision had been made, and suddenly that decision is open again. The concerns may be completely valid, but they can still feel like…
Continue Reading Legal Gets Lighter When It Becomes Infrastructure

For the past year, Minnesota’s lower-potency hemp edible (LPHE) market has operated in a state of regulatory grace. As of April 1, 2026, that period has officially ended. The Minnesota Office of Cannabis Management (OCM) has fully assumed the reins, and the rules of the game have shifted from “registration” to “strict licensure.” If you are a manufacturer, retailer, or wholesaler in the hemp space, here are some updates you need to know to stay on the right side…
Continue Reading Minnesota Hemp Roundup

Not all business information is created equal, especially when it comes to legal protection. Companies often use the terms “trade secrets” and “confidential information” interchangeably, but under Wisconsin law, the distinction is meaningful and can significantly impact both risk exposure as well as available remedies. Understanding how these categories of information differ is essential for businesses to protect valuable business assets and navigate any potential disputes.

1. What Is a Trade Secret?

A trade secret is a specific category…
Continue Reading Not All Secrets Are Created Equal: Trade Secrets versus Confidential Business Information

If you visited your local dispensary or brewery yesterday to celebrate 4/20, things probably did not look much different than they did back in January, when we first wrote about the looming federal THC ban set to take effect in November 2026. THC beverages and vapor products remain widely available and, at least in my area, that availability appears to be growing. But the current status quo could change dramatically in just a few months.

Many industry members…
Continue Reading Happy 4/20. November Is Going To Be Weird