Updated January 20, 2017 There exist true difficulties associated with patent protection and pot, especially where these activities reside in the current political and legal climate. Having represented a consortium of marijuana entities looking to obtain time-limited government-sanctioned monopolies, i.e., patent protection, the issues surrounding federally-backed intellectual property can be difficult at times and daunting in the marijuana context. To be sure, the difficulty concerning pot and patents is not necessarily in obtaining this intellectual property instrument(1). Rather, the difficulty lies in the unavailability of federal protections, their effective inaccessibility, or in som
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