Yup. Now the patents are to stop from others to reverse engineer it for themselves. Or at least by the same methods that the original patent is about. And also by not using other methods that actually didn’t work, but are still patented for the devious objective.
Fun fact, AFAIK Pfizer vaccine has been largely reverse engineered.
Yup. Now the patents are to stop from others to reverse engineer it for themselves. Or at least by the same methods that the original patent is about. And also by not using other methods that actually didn’t work, but are still patented for the devious objective.