Author Archives: John DiGiacomo

There are valid trademarking strategies for cannabis-related businesses. While you cannot trademark your cannabis — the specific product — at the federal level, you CAN trademark your cannabis at the State level and, at the federal level, you CAN trademark everything related to your cannabis. Indeed, at the federal level, it is important to register […]

Trademarks can last literally forever, at least as long as commerce exists. There are some trademarks that have been in use for hundreds of years. Some trademarks currently in use in the U.S. are over 100 years old. Examples include John Deer, Coca-Cola, and others. We must distinguish between the trademarks themselves and the registration […]

Non-compete agreements/clauses are generally required when a business or substantially all of its assets are sold. Buyers require this generally to prevent the management and high-level employees of the seller from opening a new business in competition with the one that has just been sold. For obvious reasons, the buyer does not want the seller’s […]

As noted in Part One of this article, in May 2023, Montana passed the “Montana Consumer Data Privacy Act” (“MCDPA”), which will take effect in October 2024. In Part One, we summarized the applicability of the MCDPA and the rights that are given to Montana consumers while pointing out some oddities and unique features of […]

In May 2023, Montana became yet another State to enact a consumer data privacy/protection statute. Montana’s version is called the “Montana Consumer Data Privacy Act.” The MCDPA will take effect in October 2024. In this article (Parts One and Two), we will provide a brief summary of the MCDPA. In Part One, we will summarize […]

In an asset purchase transaction, “transition services” refer to the idea that, as part of the deal, the seller agrees, post-sale-consummation, to help the buyer with some aspect of the transaction. This might entail helping the buyer integrate some newly acquired asset into the buyer’s business operations or training the buyer’s staff/employees on use, etc. […]

The main reason that trademark holders must enforce and protect their trademark rights is that, without enforcement/protection, the trademark itself can be destroyed, and trademark rights will cease to exist. This can occur in two ways: destruction of the functioning of the trademark as a trademark and genericide. Genericide is when a trademark becomes, in […]

Quality control provisions are crucial for Chinese supplier contracts for fulfillment-by-Amazon sellers. When using a Chinese company as a supply vendor for FBA, the obvious problem for Amazon sellers is that the manufacturer is overseas, and the products are being shipped around the globe. This means that it is very difficult to visit the factory […]

Call us here at Revision Legal if you are thinking of selling your online business to an e-commerce rollup company or if you are in the process of rolling up e-commerce businesses. We thrive on representing e-commerce companies and want to be your one-stop shop for answers to your legal questions. We are and have […]

Direct-to-consumer (“DTC” or “D2C”) e-commerce businesses have unique legal needs and, as such, need unique DTC e-commerce attorneys like the ones at Revision Legal. As we say, we understand D2C businesses because we are one (even though our product, of course, is delivered in conference rooms, board rooms, and courtrooms). Being DTC means significant additional […]