

When it comes to Alcohol and Cannabis Labels – Don’t Forget the Intellectual Property!
When scrolling through bottles of wine and beer at your local liquor store, or browsing the cannabis products in a neighborhood dispensary, labels jump out
At Rogoway Law, our beverage law attorneys offer a multidisciplinary approach, assisting wineries, cultivators, and other wine industry businesses through our regulatory, corporate, litigation, intellectual property, and employment law practices.
Rogoway Law is a multidisciplinary firm for regulated substance industries.
Our winery law attorneys assist clients with:
Our wine and alcoholic beverage law attorneys help wineries with certificates of label approval (COLA) and exemptions from label approval using TTB's COLAs Online.
Be it a Type 02, Type 17/20 Combo, Type 85 or another license, our winery licensing and permitting lawyers can help you apply for, transfer, or change a California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control license.
Our alcoholic beverage licensing and permitting lawyers can help you obtain and update TTB permits, registrations, or notices you need to operate a federally compliant business.
We can help submit or review formulations via TTB's Formulas Online (FONL system), ensuring that the TTB approves your formula swiftly and favorably.
Taking into account your budget and needs, our trademark and copyright lawyers collaboratively develop and implement a plan to provide your business the most robust protection from copy-cats and IP thieves.
Whether it is a license suspension, revocation, or another enforcement action, our attorneys work with regulated substance businesses to ensure they can successfully survive administrative enforcement actions brought by local, state, and federal agencies.
Our alcoholic beverage law attorneys also assist clients with:
Whether you need general day-to-day business advice or legal counsel on complex regulatory matters, the alcoholic beverage law attorneys at Rogoway Law can help you!
We have earned our reputation as a go-to multidisciplinary firm for regulated substance industries with our deep regulatory expertise and an experienced team of powerful litigation, transactional, intellectual property, and regulatory attorneys. Our partners bring several decades of cumulative legal experience across various practice areas.
Our team of alcoholic beverage law attorneys advises clients regarding many facets of the alcoholic beverage industry, including distribution agreements, franchise laws, licensing and regulatory compliance, intellectual property, and managing disputes.
When scrolling through bottles of wine and beer at your local liquor store, or browsing the cannabis products in a neighborhood dispensary, labels jump out
Before any bottle of wine (inclusive of cider and mead) can be introduced into commerce in the United States, it must have an affixed label which has received either a Certificate of Label Approval (COLA) or COLA Exemption from the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB).
In 2021 craft beer accounted for over a quarter of the total U.S. beer sales. Underlying this affinity for craft beer are a variety of regulations and licensing requirements which govern the industry.
From litigation involving breach of contract to compliance with laws related to advertising, privacy, e-commerce and Proposition 65, the Beverage Lawyers at Rogoway Law are ready to help you!