[Gunslingr3]

Pharmaceutical companies are not investing in this research because DCA method cannot be patented, and without a patent they cannot make money.

Lumber can't be patented, but people still make money providing it to those who want it.

[smoothsailing]

Lumber can't be patented, but people still make money providing it to those who want it.

Now you've done it. Any day now some tree is going to come along and file a lawsuit.

[cuban leaf]

—Lumber can’t be patented, but people still make money providing it to those who want it.—

Not as much.

[kevkrom]

Lumber can't be patented, but people still make money providing it to those who want it.

Exactly. If nothing else, the same group of manufacturers who produce a generic form of Medicine X the second its patent expires would jump on this if it were legit.