In this episode, David Drapkin interviews Sisi Li, Ph.D.: Data Architect and Team lead of the data archival team for Porta Sophia; a non-profit online library collecting relevant prior art in the world of psychedelics for patent reviewers and innovators around the world – the intention being to protect the public domain, stimulate innovation, and support good patents, all in the support of greater accessibility to psychedelics and psychedelic-assisted therapy at a mass scale. Li discusses what she does at Porta Sophia; what determines if something counts as prior art or not; the difficulties in collecting pre-prohibition, underground, and Indigenous community data; patent families, what can be patented, and the complexities of international patents; and COMPASS Pathways and their patent debacle. She also discusses epigenetics and intergenerational trauma, and her Women in Biohealth (WiB) mentoring program.
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