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    Intellectual Property and Cannabis by Corthésy, Natalie; Bonadio, Enrico; Williams, Yentyl;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Edward Elgar Publishing
    • Date of Publication 30 May 2025

    • ISBN 9781035329380
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages392 pages
    • Size 234x156 mm
    • Weight 608 g
    • Language English
    • 776

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    Short description:

    This pioneering book explores the relationship between intellectual property (IP) and cannabis. Expert scholars from across the globe reflect on the legal, cultural, and socio-economic significance of cannabis, addressing the difficulties of adapting legal frameworks to this unique and multifaceted product.

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    Long description:

    This pioneering book explores the relationship between intellectual property (IP) and cannabis. Expert scholars from across the globe reflect on the legal, cultural, and socio-economic significance of cannabis, addressing the difficulties of adapting legal frameworks to this unique and multifaceted product.



    Chapters delve into key issues at the intersection of IP and cannabis, from branding and packaging to social equity concerns surrounding the rapid growth of the market. Contributing authors demonstrate the intricate contradictions between positive IP protection and cannabis regulation, drawing on case studies from jurisdictions where the product is legalised to varying degrees, including Canada, Jamaica, Uruguay, and the Netherlands. Covering different plant varieties, moral rights, and links between cannabis and traditional knowledge, this incisive book highlights the challenges of harmonising global cannabis laws while balancing innovation and tradition.



    Providing novel interdisciplinary insights into the controversies and complexities of the law surrounding cannabis, this book is an essential read for students and academics in intellectual property law, pharmaceutical law, innovation and economics. It is also an invaluable toolkit for policymakers in governments and tribunals, as well as commercial entrepreneurs.



    ‘This book is a pioneering exploration of the relationship between the rapidly evolving legal cannabis market and the essential principles of intellectual property. An interdisciplinary group of authors has been able to brilliantly navigate the complexities of protecting traditional knowledge while promoting equitable benefit sharing for the development of cannabis trade and commerce globally. The sources advocate a more inclusive and just legal framework that acknowledges the historical and cultural significances to be accepted in the commoditizing of cannabis.’

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    Table of Contents:

    Contents
    Foreword xiv
    Spyros Maniatis
    Acknowledgements xvi
    Introduction to Intellectual Property and Cannabis 1
    Natalie Corthésy, Enrico Bonadio and Yentyl Williams
    PART I BRANDING
    1 Budding opportunities: cannabis trademarks in the United
    States 9
    Luke Sebastian Zimmerman
    2 “A bridge too far?”: trade mark protection for cannabisrelated products and services in the European Union 40
    Marc Mimler
    3 Geographical indications and cannabis 61
    Yentyl Williams
    PART II MORAL RIGHTS, IMAGE RIGHTS, PACKAGING,
    AND PLANT VARIETIES
    4 Copyright, the moral right of integrity, and marijuana 81
    Justin Koo
    5 Marijuana and image rights 96
    Emma Perot
    6 Packaging of cannabis: a regulatory overview 120
    Enrico Bonadio and Akshita Rohatgi
    7 Protecting cannabis cultivars in the United States: utility
    patents, plant patents, and plant variety protection certificates 138
    Larry Sandell
    PART III CASE STUDIES
    8 The development of an IP protection strategy for Jamaican
    cannabis 161
    Natalie Corthésy
    9 The Canadian scenario 179
    Cameron Hutchison
    10 Cannabis regulation and IP rights in Uruguay 192
    Maximiliano Marzetti
    11 The Dutch scenario 211
    Lotte Anemaet
    PART IV DEVELOPMENTAL, ECONOMIC, AND
    SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS
    12 Traditional knowledge, traditional cultural expressions and
    cannabis: an Indigenous rights-based access and benefitsharing framework 232
    Marcus Goffe
    13 The economics of intellectual property protection for
    cannabis: challenges, opportunities and the evolution of patents 272
    Cristiano Cantore
    14 Post-colonial justice in the post-prohibitionist market: a
    political economy view on IP and cannabis 294
    Bryan Khan
    15 A history and social anthropology of the African origins of Jamaica’s cannabis 322
    Toby Leon Moorsom
    Epilogue to Intellectual Property and Cannabis 359
    Andrea Zappalaglio
    Index 362

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