Types of Patents
Hello, this is Tulsa cannabis business attorney Jesse Kovacs with the OK Cannabis Law Office. Today we’re asking, what are the types of patents relevant to the cannabis industry? So you have two different types. You have utility patents and plant patents. Utility patents will cover useful processes, machines, compositions of matter, improvements, and the processes for creating a certain strain or a certain agricultural process.
This allows you to protect the strain’s genetic makeup, the methods of breeding it, and the specific uses to which it’s put toward. It’s the broadest protection. It prevents others from using the strain’s genetics without permission. You also have plant patents, which are simpler processes, but they’re more limited in scope. It just applies to the new and distinctly asexually reproduced plants.
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