Patenting Strains & the Future of Cannabis Intellectual Property

Diabolical666

Diabolical666

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Reggie Gaudino is Vice President of Scientific Operations and the Director of Intellectual Property at Steep Hill, a national leader in cannabis science and technology.

Reggie recently joined our host Shango Los for a conversation about the genetic patenting of specific cannabis strains, the future of cannabis breeding, and how the involvement of big agriculture is going to shift the landscape of the entire marijuana industry.

Listen to the podcast below, or scroll down for the full transcript!
http://www.ganjapreneur.com/reggie-gaudino-patenting-strains-the-future-of-cannabis-intellectual-property/
 
Aruanda

Aruanda

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HAHAHAHAHA. Fuck patenting cultivars. The only patents that should ever be applied are the ones relating to open source seed banks and patenting to ensure that genetic combination remains public domain.

I'm sorry, I'll never respect anyone's patenting laws regarding genetic material. If it is genetically modified in a lab that is one thing, a 'MANufactured' organism. But taking what God/Mother Nature put on this planet and working with it to recombine existing (not novel) genetic material to express novel traits is not anyones intellectual property at all.
 
Jaybodankly

Jaybodankly

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All existing strains cant be patented. My sense is they will hijack cannabis affinity with the cabanoid network in the human body to deliver other drugs.
 
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TomIke

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Aruanda said:
HAHAHAHAHA. Fuck patenting cultivars. The only patents that should ever be applied are the ones relating to open source seed banks and patenting to ensure that genetic combination remains public domain.

I'm sorry, I'll never respect anyone's patenting laws regarding genetic material. If it is genetically modified in a lab that is one thing, a 'MANufactured' organism. But taking what God/Mother Nature put on this planet and working with it to recombine existing (not novel) genetic material to express novel traits is not anyones intellectual property at all.
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Copyleft these individual strains. You can give them away, but can't sell them according to your copyleft agreement.
  1. an arrangement whereby software or artistic work may be used, modified, and distributed freely on condition that anything derived from it is bound by the same condition.
(See Linux - Linus Torvalds)
 

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