Here. I’ll help you.
Read the claims on the last page.
https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/4d/01/bb/b15d530677fb33/US7776521.pdf
It’s not a patent of a Corona virus.
It patents a method to do a PCR test on a specific corona virus.
It’s not patenting nature (but “nature” or natural things can be patented for use outside of its natural context in a way that is useful, new and unique - ie was invented.
— “It's not a patent of a Corona virus.”
The title reads, “CORONAVIRUS ISOLATED FROM HUMANS.” I guess the patent inventors and patent office got it wrong.
— “It patents a method to do a PCR test on a specific corona virus.”
The abstract reads, “Disclosed herein is a newly isolated human coronavirus (SARS-CoV), the causative agent of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). Also provided are the nucleic acid sequence of the SARS-CoV genome and the amino acid sequences of the SARS-CoV open reading frames, as well as methods of using these molecules to detect a SARS-CoV and detect infections therewith. Immune stimulatory compositions are also provided, along with methods of their use.”
You will find that the “kit claims” also include the DNA sequences, as in Table 6, which mentions in the following many pages many sequence details are included in the patent. The initial patent stems from 2007, as to an earlier version in 2003.
Given the sequencing included in the body of the patent itself, those sequences fall into legal controls as governed by the patent. You maty read more about "a working group to draft a position paper on patenting DNA-sequences," for you are correct in part, that patent law applies.
In "DNA-sequence patenting: National Society of Genetic Counselors (NSGC) position paper," from 2002.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12735296/
The sequences included in the patent in great detail (begin in 2003, then revised in 2007, and again re-done in 2010 are part of the patent.
Interesting, isn't it, that this whole patent/re-patent process originates in 2003, the kits "invented" by 2010, for a "novel" coronavirus erupting in early 2020, and all goes back to the CDC under Fauci?
Wouldn't you like to have some financial stake in patents like these? Sorry, they're reserved for others, many employed by the CDC including some now deceased, so long has this "2003" patent hand-off been bubbling along.