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Interesting reading! I wasn't aware you'd include things like details of pathogen-contamination testing in a patent application. (Or compare the results with CO2 vs N2. That's a detail of genuine interest to anyone trying to make a related product outside the scope of the patent, or a similar product after the patent expires.)

I think they've shown their work.




> That's a detail of genuine interest to anyone trying to make a related product outside the scope of the patent, or a similar product after the patent expires.

This is the very purpose of patents. To speed up innovation by forcing people to share their research in exchange for a limited monopoly. I find it both hilarious and scary that you find something special in this patent application.


I find it predictable and dull that someone here would half-read what I wrote and display what would, anywhere else, be staggering social incompetence.




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