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Natural compounds can be patented, though. If you discover that, say, eating cocktail onions cures cancer, you're allowed to patent that. Cocktail onions as su
by Turing_Machine 5y ago
Natural compounds can be patented, though.
If you discover that, say, eating cocktail onions cures cancer, you're allowed to patent that. Cocktail onions as such wouldn't be patentable, but using them to cure cancer would be.
- ls15 5y ago> Cocktail onions as such wouldn't be patentable, but using them to cure cancer would be. In the sense that a person with cancer could be sued for eating unlicensed cocktail onions?
- Turing_Machine 5y agoTechnically, yes. In practice, very unlikely...but you'd almost certainly be sued for selling "ls15's Anti-Cancer Cocktail Onions".
- ls15 5y agoI'd be sued for that regardless of its efficacy.