Regardless of the status of the patents, what they actually carried out was massive fraud. Misrepresentation of actual results and sliding the reports of inter

Regardless of the status of the patents, what they actually carried out was massive fraud. Misrepresentation of actual results and sliding the reports of internal progress until they couldn't withstand the total failure and physical impossibility of what they were doing is a straight up scam. Even if the overly broad, ridiculous patent was somehow 'invented', what Holmes and crew did was reprehensible all by itself.