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No Shortage of Rhetoric After Agency Move Announcements

There’s been no shortage of political rhetoric about recent announcements of moving headquarters of the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Department of...
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Gold Mining Rivals Team up in Huge Joint Venture

Colorado’s Newmont Goldcorp and Canada’s Barrick Gold Corporation spent much of the last year dethroning each other as the world’s top gold producer. But...

USPTO Sets Representation Requirement for Foreign Trademark Filers

A new requirement for U.S. trademark filings could clean up the submission pool for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and drum up some...

Illinois Joins States With Legalized Marijuana

With a governor’s signature, the number of states with legal recreational marijuana has expanded to 11. On Tuesday, Illinois became the second most populous state...

USPTO’s Ban on Immoral and Scandalous Marks Unconstitutional, SCOTUS Says

Barely two months after hearing oral arguments, the U.S. Supreme Court said in a 6-3 decision that a provision of trademark law barring “immoral”...
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A New Proposal for Opioid Settlements

Denver is among 40 U.S. cities and counties that have asked a federal judge in Ohio to create a “negotiation class” to represent all...
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Colorado Sues to Block Telecom Merger

A merger between four major telecom companies could be derailed by a lawsuit filed last week. Colorado joined eight other states last week in a...

First Comes Vote, Now Comes Implementation

By a sliver of a margin, Denver voted in May to make enforcement of laws prohibiting magic mushrooms, or psilocybin, law enforcement’s lowest priority...

Innovator Indicators

Patent law practitioners tend to have an inkling of where innovation is happening, and in which industries. Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton co-authored a study...

Colorado’s Bill for Sexuality Education Passed. But What if Educators Raise Objections...

One of the more controversial bills from this year’s state legislative session got introduced on the first day of the session and was passed...