"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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Psst...actually EVERY lab manufacturing COVID-19 tests are using the sequence/testing control parameters from the CDC period.