[babygene]

"Elevated homocysteine is linked to B-12 deficiency, so doctors should test homocysteine levels to see whether the patient needs vitamins."

As I understand it, ideas and facts specifically CANT be patented. Neither can recipes or mathematical formulas.

[antiRepublicrat]

As I understand it, ideas and facts specifically CANT be patented. Neither can recipes or mathematical formulas.

Facts and recipes (as facts) can't be copyrighted. It used to be that mathematical formulas (scientific truths), and with them computer programs, couldn't be patented, but that went out the window in the 1990s when some judges thought it was okay.