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by b800h 1046 days ago
Does that mean the patent should start from 1999?
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Patents start from the day they are applied from, right? They just kept it secret until they applied for it. So the patent starts from 2020.

Anyway, I wonder how important that patent https://patents.google.com/patent/KR20210062550A/en is in the end, as it seems their way of manufacturing it is not very effective anyway and it might even be possible to find nearby compounds with similar properties.