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It's worth pointing out industrial food preparation processes can be patented. Beyond Meat for instance:

https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2015161099A1/en

If you could create a pharmaceutical via an alternate method, would that fall afoul of the original patent?

> It's worth pointing out industrial food preparation processes can be patented.

How is it possible that this can be patented, but ordinary recipes can't? Everything is "industrial" if done in a scale large enough

(note: the excerpt from the comment above this chain was about copyright, not patents)

Industrial food preparation steps can be patented but they probably cannot be copyrighted.

I mean, it looks like culinary recipes by themselves should be able to be patented (not copyrighted, patented), regardless of whether they are "industrial" or not (I mean industrial is only about scale, you can have very complex processes in ordinary kitchens)

Either this or processes to prepare food shouldn't be patented at all

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