Almost unnoticed among the multitude of presentations made during ASM Microbe—the annual meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, which ended Monday in San Francisco—was research presented Sunday out of Australia indicating the “surprising” effectiveness of cannabis as a powerful antibiotic. Mark Blaskovich, senior research chemist at the University of Queensland’s Institute for Molecular Bioscience’s […]
Whatever your business model, there will be an IP approach that can help protect what you’re trying to do.
As Corteva Agriscience rang in today’s session of the New York Stock Exchange, celebrating its independence from DowDupont, I couldn’t help but think about Big Ag’s flirtation with cannabis, especially after CEO Jim Collins referred to Corteva as “a new kind of agriculture company.”
takeaways from my time at Open Cannabis Project
Big Ag Will Have You Conform or Go Under
Big Cannabis will get its own patents on their own cultivars and/or other inventions — not patents that cover the plants you are using right now.
In an environment of mistrust, can the mountain of genetic work still to be done for the benefit of cannabis breeders get done?
Open Cannabis Project to dissolve.
In the wake of the Phylos controversy, many are wondering about the need for DNA sequence information in patents. That’s a complicated question in some ways, because the answer has some layers and explanations to it. But, in another way, it’s a very simple question. So let’s start with simple: how much DNA sequence information […]
The “Phylos Stole Meh Genetics” meme; Concerns regarding the data Phylos had accumulated and whether or not this data was going to be used as part of Phylos’ breeding programs.
The cannabis science community addresses Phylos Biosciences’s plans to start commercial breeding.
Last week, Joshua Grover, cannabis program director for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW), published an opinion piece on kymkemp.com that was directed not only at the “many cultivators…at a crossroads” whether to become licensed growers, imploring them to enter the licensing program, but also at licensed growers, who, Grover argued, “also need […]