Brand-Name Bud? Gold Rush To Patent Marijuana Strains Gets Snuffed By U.S. Patent Off

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Not patents..


Source:
http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/marijuana/marijuana-strain-patents/

A gold rush to obtain federal patents on strains of marijuana such as Acapulco Gold, Maui Wowie and even straight-up "Chronic" was snuffed out last week by the federal patent office, according to a report in Monday's Wall Street Journal. The move came following inquiries by the Journal regarding the new federal patent category: "Processed plant matter for medicinal purposes, namely medical marijuana." Unfortunately or not, marijuana is still federally outlawed, and the patent office pulled the category.
So, what were the patent-office workers smoking when they created the category April 1. Did they realize that was April Fool's Day?
Patent office spokesman Peter Pappas told the Journal the category "raises examination issues ... It was a mistake and we have removed it."
We're not sure what's worse: That someone was going to be able to patent a decades-old nom-de-pot such as Acapulco Gold, thereby elbowing out others who would use the title, or the apparent lack of oversight by well-paid federal authorities.
Either way, we envision a day when the continuing privatization of intellectual property and even certain crops will spread to include brand-name bud.

 

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Good idea.... but the entire patent system is flawed!! There are companies like Microsoft that patent things where they have no business to patent it. Companies just see patents as another way to make huge profits.