CDC Patent on SARS-CoV Is Legal

A video has shown up online entitled Plandemic II: Indoctornation. The video presents a conspiracy theory behind the Covid-19 pandemic. Covid-19 is an infectious disease caused by the SARS-COV-2 virus. The 75-minute documentary is a follow up to a similar video that went viral in May. This new video suggests that the SARS-COV-2 virus was man-made and intentionally released. The video features Dr. David Martin, a financial analyst who has a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia.

Misbar has discovered that Dr. Martin lays out three arguments to support the assertion that Covid-19 was man-made. One of the arguments is that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) saw the possibility for profit and filed a patent covering the isolated virus that causes SARS and ways to detect it. As a result of the patent, Dr. Martin claimed the CDC controlled 100 percent of the cash flow that built the empire around the industrial complex of coronavirus. Dr. Martin asserts that the CDC patent on the virus was illegal because the Patent Act prohibits patents on natural phenomena. Dr. Martin states, “Nature is prohibited from being patented. Either SARS-CoV was manufactured, therefore making a patent on it legal, or it was natural, therefore making a patent on it illegal.”

According to USA Today, the CDC did file a patent application on SARS-CoV in 2004; it was granted in 2007. However, according to the CDC, the application is to prevent others from monopolizing the field. In a statement to the AP, CDC spokesman Llelwyn Grant said “This is being done to give the industry and other researchers access to the samples.”

Rules on what is patented and not were changed in a pivotal U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 1980. Since then, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has awarded patents for living things, most notably individual human genes. Entire humans cannot be patented but genes or parts of genes can be if they prove to be new, useful, and isolated by somebody using sophisticated scientific techniques.

The specific patent of SARS-CoV featured in Plandemic II includes the “isolated coronavirus genome, isolated coronavirus proteins, and isolated nucleic acid molecules.” These man-made steps in the process are what make the patent legal. According to a statement to the AP by John Doll, Director of Biotechnology for the patent office, “It must have real world utility and there has to be the hand of man involved.”

What should or should not be patented is continuously argued, especially when it comes to nature. Professor David Koepsell, Professor at Delft University of Technology and author of the book Who Owns You? The Corporate Gold Rush to Patent Your Genes, “Laws of patent are meant to be used to protect inventions – things that engineers are doing – not things that scientist discover.”

Because the CDC patent involves man-made steps related to the virus, their patent was legal.