// Definition
Ongoing legal and community debate about Reinhardt's patent on water hash extraction methods and whether prior art exists to invalidate it. Despite abundant prior art, challenging a patent in court is expensive and difficult.
// From the Episode
Mark Scialdone warned that going through a patent case is not as easy as people think, regardless of how much prior art exists. The panel discussed how patents in the cannabis space create barriers even when traditional methods predate them. Bubbleman noted buying equipment at cannabis cups where people were clearly already making water hash.
// Source
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