Someone asked me last night, is there a strong patent barrier to liquor?It's still all patents for ways and methods. The person who asked him was a doctor of pharmacy who didn't know how to drink yet, but he had to drink a little every day to overcome his sleep, and I just talked to him about how to drink and what to drink, and after a little chat, he asked.
I was stunned for a second, to be honest, I just read the patent profile, and I haven't seen what the claims of any specific patent are, but according to my rough judgment, I replied that there seems to be no barriers, and they are basically patents on microbial applications.
I didn't say anything about the way and how, and that part didn't make much sense. Most of the microbial patents, microorganisms are in nature, how does this form a barrier?The few special microorganisms that are specially generated and cultivated are the real patents, at least these things do not exist in nature, so they will not appear in other environments. Those that are in the natural environment, although they may be very low, but as long as they exist, it is possible that they exist in other koji, how can you ask for a patent to be valid, for the purpose of prohibiting others from using it.
In the early days, I opened a patent for a microorganism at random, glanced at the claims, and it was roughly the same as I imagined, of course, you can use it to make wine, but if you have a Daqu factory, right next door to you, will his Daqu be illegal?By the way, don't you sell Daqu yourself?What is the difference between self-use and take-out?Do you use a level 4 bio-isolation lab to make a big song?The workers of the Daqu workshop, which was leaking from all sides, let out hearty laughter, and the simple men and women comrades with bare feet shook their heads with sweat.
Hey, even if I don't specialize in cultivating microorganisms to make koji, finding a biological company to help me breed strains doesn't conflict with patents. After that, as long as there is this strain in the environment around Omagar, it will naturally exist in Omaji. I don't know if that's right. I don't know whether Daqu's current koji production relies on the natural environment or is artificially added, but I know that even if you ban brewing by patent, then you don't prohibit making soy sauce, vinegar, or even steamed buns, right?Or the patent ban on sorghum fertilizer, did you apply for it?So in case I have a good neighbor or I have good natural ingredients, I just say that nature is really good.