Welcome to our Psychedelic Blog, a collection of musings on psychedelics and their relationship to content marketing & copywriting, leadership, and ethics. From insights on microdosing to stories about using psychedelics for healing and transformation, this blog is focused on exploring the potential of these powerful substances in our lives.
Smothering Competition or Protecting Progress?
Let’s be clear: I’m not neutral on drug patents. They’re supposed to protect innovation. In practice, they exist to protect profit by legally enforcing monopolies and stifling competition.
Some of the worst offenders use what's known as a Markush claim, a legal structure that allows a patent to cover a whole family of compounds by describing a range of possible variations on a molecular scaffold.