"On the other hand, patent applications are published 18 months after they have been filed. During that period the application is confidential to the patent office. Thus, we will have to wait until the second half of 2021 to find out if there is a Wuhan coronavirus patent application. In 2003, when the SARS-CoV virus was discovered, several institutions were quick to unilaterally file patent applications for the total or partial sequence of the coronavirus genome".
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Coronavirus is the umbrella term for the supposed virus - or rather a very real set of viruses, which encapsulate covid-19/Sars-COV2.
Coronavirus is the kind of virus it is, delineating it from things like Influenza etc.
Influenza is an Orthomyxoviridae virus which is RNA negative-sense.
Coronavirus is an Orthocoronavirinae virus which is RNA positive-sense.
Patent or not, Coronavirus is just the type it is.