Despite the shadow of the DOJ and Jeff Session standing over the industry, the fact the US Patent office is issuing cannabis patent to business.
Nearly 1,500 cannabis patent applications have been filed, more than half in the last 25 years. About half of the requests were approved and some of those have expired, leaving about 500 currently active cannabis-related patents.
Forbes interviewed David Cohen, PhD, an independent patent agent in Oakland, California, works with medical device and cannabis patents. Here, we ask him what types of patents are being issued, who’s filing for them and where the biggest opportunities in cannabis-patenting may be.
Read their full Q&A here.