Articles tagged with "patents"
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Cannabis farmers scramble to protect heirloom seeds from Big Ag
David Bienenstock - Published on December 12, 2019read moreOld-school California growers are prepping for a patent war against global agricultural giants.
One man’s crusade to open-source cannabis DNA
David Bienenstock - Published on December 11, 2019read moreYou can’t patent information in the public domain. So Kevin McKernan is sequencing cannabis DNA and posting it, to keep the plant free.
This company filed the first cannabis DNA patent—and nobody knows who they are
David Bienenstock - Published on December 10, 2019read moreBioscience Institute lists no executive officers and no corporate address. But it owns potentially valuable cannabis patents. The researchers who work for them don’t want to talk about it.
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Leafly investigation: Inside the billion-dollar race to patent cannabis
David Bienenstock - Published on December 9, 2019read moreBackstabbing partners, secret financial backers, hired-gun geneticists: Welcome to Leafly’s series on the new cannabis patent war.
