Charlotte's Web - Given US patent!!

[clearheaded]

wonder if can actually hold up as in public domain already?

https://www.humboldtseeds.net/en/blog/charlottes-web-first-hemp-strain-to-obtain-a-us-patent/

 

[I'mback]

Interesting

 

[Green Santa]

if someone gets a patent on a plant, does that mean all the progeny also have to pay rent?

Also, if someone has a special plant that has already been shared freely to the public domain ( I mean other growers might have a copy of said plant ) , can the creator then decide to get a patent on said plant? Not that I have anything special maybe one plant but I am wondering in case I ever find the holy grail ... am I supposed to hoard it or sharing it with other growers to confirm it is a winner remains a valid option.

I have always been on the fence about patenting plants, I always think we are all working on the work of others anyway. But what I would hate to see is a big corporation profiting from a plant they did not create nor found from growing seeds, and patenting it as theirs while the work was already released in the public domain by the original creator?

 

[HillBillyAlien]

Pretty silly but no one will have to pay fines if they grown other cbd strains as CW is just a pheno of Cannatonic plus there is nothing special about CW anyways.

 

[Im'One]

if someone gets a patent on a plant, does that mean all the progeny also have to pay rent?

Also, if someone has a special plant that has already been shared freely to the public domain ( I mean other growers might have a copy of said plant ) , can the creator then decide to get a patent on said plant? Not that I have anything special maybe one plant but I am wondering in case I ever find the holy grail ... am I supposed to hoard it or sharing it with other growers to confirm it is a winner remains a valid option.

I have always been on the fence about patenting plants, I always think we are all working on the work of others anyway. But what I would hate to see is a big corporation profiting from a plant they did not create nor found from growing seeds, and patenting it as theirs while the work was already released in the public domain by the original creator?

Patenting plants is ridiculously pointless. How in the hell are they going to enforce this? It's the drug war all over again. Laws that can not be enforced passed by people who cannot imagine what they are doing. How many clones of Charlotte's Web are already in the public domain?

 

[clearheaded]

well its good cause its known by someone at every familys dinner table and makes stanley brothers millions of dollars.

will large scale commercial farms purchase clones? or just use multiple much better "hemp" plants currently on the market.

get why they did it and gives them a decent amount of power as who is going to challenge there patent. will hand out S&D letters.

interesting test to see if phylos can offer information to prevent this from holding water. based on 6%cbd and less then .3thc what makes it CW, the gentics, or just the name? I would assume if is genetic yes can go after crosses as monsanto does this with its round up ready crops pollinating farmers feilds and then sue them for using there own seeds.

 

[Koondense]

Isn't the CW a hemp plant?



Cheers

 

[Im'One]

Glad I didn't choose Charlotte's Web for my cbd plants. What a joke.

 

[Ringodoggie]

Seems pretty clear that they are simply preparing to come out with a commercial strain called Charlotte's Web. All they are doing is protecting the name.

As for growing your own, it's not against any laws to copy a patented product for personal use. I can make all the Coca Cola and Frito's I want as long as I don't give it away or sell it. So, growing for personal use will be fine but using the name "Charlotte's Web" for profit has just been protected.

I don't see a problem with this. It's all about marketing and the name "Charlotte's Web"










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[Im'One]

Seems pretty clear that they are simply preparing to come out with a commercial strain called Charlotte's Web. All they are doing is protecting the name.

As for growing your own, it's not against any laws to copy a patented product for personal use. I can make all the Coca Cola and Frito's I want as long as I don't give it away or sell it. So, growing for personal use will be fine but using the name "Charlotte's Web" for profit has just been protected.

I don't see a problem with this. It's all about marketing and the name "Charlotte's Web









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Ok that makes sense....in our state we see lots of questionable labeling.

 

[pineterp]

There are higher cbd lower thc cuts out there, we wouldnt consider CW compared to Lifter or Cherry Mom just to name a couple.

 

[highsteppa]

As somone else mentioned, it’s really just to protect the name. No ones really after that cut

 

[soil margin]

Didn’t CW come from a strain called R4 that was widely shared among Colorado growers? I seem to remember people talking about that when the Stanley’s went public with their stuff a few years ago.

 

[clearheaded]

they already had a patent for there hemp cbd product name sold as charlettes web as already sell and grow hemp aka CW. name is different then a plant patent. now that i am thinking I would imagine stabilized seeds vs just the cut. put in some work, but still curious if is patentable as phylos has said wouldnt be "possible" or hodl water.

What I hope they do is pay for charlettes care for LIFE! as really it was her that was put on tv because of her condition/suffering that made it known and popular. and pay for studies into helping durvets.

 

[Oregonism]

Naming who cares really, plant patent is the money.

C4 is a sibling of Canna-tsu.....Cannatonic, Ac/dc, the wife, cherry wine, etc...... all seem to be either direct clones or S1s.