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Patent Counts by Year

I searched the USPTO patent database for all patents for which the patent abstract contained any of the following terms: cannabis, cannabinoid, marijuana, tetrahydrocannabinoid, or cannabinol. My search yielded 914 patents.

As seen in Figure 1, there were only a handful of cannabis patents each year until the late 1990s. Cannabis patent activity started increasing at a roughly constant annual rate between 2001 and 2010. Patent activity leveled off between 2010 and 2015, then accelerated through to the present.

Figure 1

1 mj patent counts

Patent Counts by Category

Category Descriptions

Based on patent descriptions, I assigned each patent to a category and subcategory. I defined the patent categories as follows:

Delivery: Methods of or compositions for delivering cannabis into the body

Detect: Methods of detecting cannabinoids in products samples or in people

Extract: Methods of extracting cannabinoids from plant matter

Grow: Methods of cultivating cannabis plants

Package: Methods of packaging of cannabis products

Plant: Plant cultivars

Pre-Plant: Plant genomics

Process: Methods of processing of cannabis, excluding extraction of cannabinoids from plant matter

Receptor: Patents addressing cannabinoid receptors: CB1, CB2, agonist, antagonist, ligand

Smoke: Devices and formulations for smoking cannabis

Storage: Methods and devices for storing cannabis products

Synthesis: Methods of synthesizing cannabinoids

Terpene: Products and methods involving cannabis terpenes

Track: Software for tracking cannabis cultivation, sales, usage, or trading

Treatment: Cannabis compositions for the treatment of specific conditions

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