Patent application by USC: Fasting condition as dietary treatment of diabetes
Valter D. Longo and Chia-Wei Cheng are the &quot;inventors&quot;. This is a blatant attempt at taking advantage of the indifference of the uspo and the ignorance of the public to what is going on at the uspo. This is despicable and I think we as somewhat more informed participants in this little thing called civilization need to do more to have our voices heard and vilify those who keep taking advantage of society. This includes those that at the uspo that are actually reading these patents and issuing them. Can anyone find out who they are?<p>On another note, I wonder if there is any form of moral hazard in the uspo office, possibly in the form of workers being incentivized to issue patents, or workers from certain companies going to work for patent offices that are sought out by those companies for their patents. Maybe offices or workers are granting patents for the sake of being able to show a high number of patents issued at the end of the year. Maybe this makes them look good when it comes time for performance review. idk. I do know that something needs to change, a change that hopefully adds transparency and holds people responsible. Should we write our congress representatives? (lol)<p>edit: wording, punctuation, hoopla