The Wild West of Cannabis Trademarking
As the cannabis market slowly creeps its way into mainstream media, more growers are “coming out of the closet” by flaunting their grow styles and top-quality strains. With this shift into the spotlight, the issue of trademarking and protecting genetics/intellectual property is becoming quite serious and a focus of many in the industry.
The evolution of strain names is quite fascinating. In the beginning, strains were typically named after their area of origin (think Afghani, Purple Thai, Hindu Kush, etc.).
Over the last couple decades, however, the industry’s buying process has shifted away from picking up an unlabeled bag from your weed-man, in which you were lucky to even know if it was sativa or indica, to walking into a store with dozens of unique strains to choose from.
Many breeders took advantage of this new-found marketing opportunity and began to release genetics with names that would entice potential consumers....
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