[HighWheeler]

This guy should have filed a patent for the process. He is out Multi-Million$ thanks to yapping about it.

However, maybe he was smart enough to leave out a key element or step in the process for this interview.

[El Gato]

This guy should have filed a patent for the process. He is out Multi-Million$ thanks to yapping about it.

Actually that would be multi-million "Pounds". But who's to say he didn't file a patent application. The article doesn't say that he did not. However I'm not sure one can patent a existing process, even though one long lost. He probably can, since he didn't get it from reading old documents, but rather "rediscovered" it.

[blowfish]

You know how many cheap synthetic dyes we have nowadays? The market for natural dyes produced by molluscs is basically zero...

[patent]

>>>>This guy should have filed a patent for the process. He is out Multi-Million$ thanks to yapping about it.

He is admitting that the Romans knew about it, so it was previously known. You can't patent something that was previously known.

Now, if he advances from here and finds a new way to use this old technology, he may be able to patent that, and that would be the valuable part anyway.

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