| Topic: | Patenting of viruses | |
| Posted by: | Chantal Blake-Milton | |
| Date/Time: | 03/02/20 08:28:00 |
| Those who spotted the patenting of the coronavirus by the Pirbright Institute in Woking, were quickly dismissed as "antivaxers" and conspiracy theorists, with the NYT and BBC issuing denial statements as well as the Institute itself. In July 2015, the Pirbright Institute applied for a patent for a live attenuated coronavirus comprising a variant replicase gene encoding polyproteins comprising a mutation of one or more amino acids. The European Patent Office issued patent no. EP3172319B1 in November 2019 with an expiration date of 23.7.2035. The Zika virus was patented by the Rockafella Foundation in 1947, currently available to buy online from ATCC, with Ebola available from The Natural Antigen Company, based in Kidlington, Oxford. |