Items tagged with patents
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Inside the billion-dollar race to patent cannabis [09.12.2019] | The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has already issued several patents for specific kinds of cannabis and for more wide-ranging “utility pat ... |
Inside the Walmart of weed [23.11.2019] | With Canada the largest nation to completely legalize marijuana, the world’s most valuable pot company, Canopy Growth Corp., founded in 2013 and now ... |
Canada’s cannabis colonialism [09.10.2019] | Canadian weed companies have their eye on a massive prize: the lucrative medical and adult cannabis markets that are emerging around the world. Much ... |
Why pot's illicit history is making it so hard for companies to get patents in the legal cannabis era [13.09.2019] | When Canopy Growth Corp. announced a plan to acquire cannabis researcher Ebbu Inc. for US$330 million last October, it touted the company’s intellect ... |
What is required for Jamaica to export its hi-grade ganja [11.02.2019] | Jamaica’s decriminalisation of ganja in 2015 brought with it many expectations, one being the ability to export its hi-grade herb. With a relatively ... |
Monopoly of medical cannabis not in public interest: Experts [08.01.2019] | Authorities in Thailand overseeing a flood of patents for medical cannabis must consider the public interest, otherwise a commercial monopoly of the ... |
Thailand moves one step closer to legal marijuana [24.11.2018] | Thailand is moving closer to getting medical marijuana legalised, as the bill on the issue has already made headway in the legislative process. The N ... |
Cannabis companies race to clinch an edge in pot industry’s next phase of growth: Intellectual property [09.11.2018] | A report by the Bank of Montreal, which assumed a blue-sky scenario in which the U.S. and all 28 countries in the European Union legalize marijuana f ... |
Global cannabis industry eyes China for production and investment [02.11.2018] | The global cannabis industry is targeting China for production and investment, while the country’s investors are warming up to the idea of placing th ... |
Has Big Pharma’s ‘inevitable entrance’ into the cannabis space arrived? [03.09.2018] | As Canada prepares to legalise the recreational use of marijuana, the medicinal potential of cannabis has attracted increased attention in the pharma ... |
How mapping marijuana DNA could change the future of pot [12.06.2018] | Scientists are currently in the midst of exploring uncharted territory: The cannabis genome. Unlike with other plants, researchers don't have a long ... |
Medicinal cannabis policies and practices around the world [24.04.2018] | Although cannabis remains a prohibited substance worldwide, in recent decades a series of political, legislative and judicial processes in various pa ... |
Green gold: how China quietly grew into a cannabis superpower [27.08.2017] | Thanks to government support and a long tradition, China has quietly become a superpower in hemp production and research. This growth has in part bee ... |
World Cannabis Day: ‘Flying leaves’ defy stigma to soar to new heights [21.04.2017] | Ironically, in Asia where cannabis cultivation first began, cannabis laws remain the strictest. China will probably be the last country to relax such ... |
Israel seeks piece of projected $50 billion medical marijuana market [27.03.2017] | Israel, a leader in marijuana research and health technology, is attracting international investment as it tries to position itself as a cutting-edge ... |
Portland startup maps cannabis genome to protect weed from Monsanto patenting [23.04.2016] | A Portland biotechnology company has launched a 3-D map that charts the genetic evolution of cannabis genomes, protecting strains like OG Kush from f ... |
What a looming patent war could mean for the future of the marijuana industry [20.04.2016] | On August 4, 2015, US officials quietly made history by approving the first-ever patent, No. 9095554, for a plant containing significant amounts of T ... |
China’s marijuana surprise [11.11.2014] | An economic stir is happening in China, but it’s in an industry you might not expect. With more than half of the 600 relevant patents filed with the ... |
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