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Not just diabetes, it appears to enhance the efficacy (such as it is) of cytotoxic chemotherapy as well. Not sure how someone would actually file an infringeme
by apathy 10y ago
Not just diabetes, it appears to enhance the efficacy (such as it is) of cytotoxic chemotherapy as well.
Not sure how someone would actually file an infringement lawsuit for not eating, though. This therapy has a little tiny bit of prior art (e.g. several hundred million years).
Patent applications and prosecutions are difficult, much more difficult than I think most realize. Try it yourself (be sure to have at least a spare $13000 lying around) and come back in a year or so with your scars, if you're one of the folks randomly sniping about the process. It's far, far, far from perfect; but it evolves (see for example Myriad, Prometheus, and Alice for important recent cases) and the worst mistakes do get corrected.
JMHO
- ThrustVectoring 10y agoThey wouldn't file infringement suits for not eating. They'd file them against people who build a business out of controlling the diet of diabetic patients in this particular way. And given that it's been studied, health insurance companies are willing to pay for diabetic patients to have their diet controlled in this particular way. IMO, it's not an attempt to monopolize the results of the research. Rather, it's an attempt to monopolize extracting money out of health insurance companies that are only willing to pay for proven treatments.
- brazzledazzle 10y agoIt's probably my ignorance and preconceived notions showing but this seems so bizarre when contrasted with something like medication. If patenting methods is possible could I patent a particular type of high intensity interval training?