I think they might not. I will grant I'm not an expert in this area, but I did read the cited paper. It's a paper from a law student published in the universiti

I think they might not. I will grant I'm not an expert in this area, but I did read the cited paper. It's a paper from a law student published in the universities law journal. Maybe he knows what he's talking about, but I would put my money on the patent attorneys filing and being granted all the phage therapy patents. It was also published in 2019 and a lot of phage related patents have been granted since then. Is the patent office just unaware of the precedence cited in the paper? Are there any examples of phage therapy patents being challenged in court and not holding up? Here is some info from a leading IP firm on the challenges around phage patents and how to address them when filing [1]. As they pretty clearly point out there are some challenges, but creating defensible patents in this area can be and is done. These companies can pretty much always find a way to create a defensible patent if they want to. [1] https://www.nixonpeabody.com/insights/alerts/2021/03/03/patent-update-bacteriophage-applications https://www.nixonpeabody.com/insights/alerts/2021/03/03/pate...