It’s not every day you get a true Eureka! moment in science. But Andrew Alfred, chief scientist at the Denver-based cannabis company, LivWell, recently did. The company grows cannabis in a giant indoor “farm” for sale at their dispensaries in Colorado and Oregon.
Alfred said one day “we had someone come into our office and say ‘Hey I got something that I haven’t seen before. You want to come take a look at this?’
He said what they found was Eureka-worthy indeed. Alfred had been growing a cannabis plant through an asexual breeding process called “tissue culture.” It’s sort of like cloning. But their cloned plant was now behaving differently from its mother plant. It was healthier and hardier and altogether new.
So they decided to hire a patent lawyer. They worked on their patent application for more than a year, taking meticulous measurements and notes and describing their new plant in detail before finally submitting it to the discretion of the US Patent and Trademark Office.
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