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A comment on Ask HN: Why is LK-99 public?.

Re:Ask HN: Why is LK-99 public? by thevania on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @08:15AM (#36969808)
as the name suggests, it was first synthetized in 1999 and only now the public got to know about it - that's 24 years and we know about it only because of human spite
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Re:Ask HN: Why is LK-99 public? by b800h on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @08:43AM (#36970109)
Does that mean the patent should start from 1999?
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Re:Ask HN: Why is LK-99 public? by _flux on Thursday August 03, 2023 @06:53AM (#36983999)
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.

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