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US Ebola patent

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You patent what you invented in order to stop others from profiting from the same invention using the result of your work and effort.

I really don't see how this applies to a virus, since presumably you can't patent what you didn't invent. Otherwise I would patent the game of Chess.

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ABSTRACT

Compositions and methods including and related to the Ebola Bundibugyo virus (EboBun) are provided. Compositions are provided that are operable as immunogens to elicit and immune response or protection from EboBun challenge in a subject such as a primate. Inventive methods are directed to detection and treatment of EboBun infection.

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To prevent any other agent claiming a patent and thus blocking scientific work.

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This is a decent article on it, but it still does not answer everything.

http://www.ibtimes.com/us-government-wants-patent-ebola-virus-heres-why-thats-good-thing-1719681

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Calm down people. They patented some process not the virus.

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See the abstract I quoted above.