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But isn't a modified molecule a reformulation, which cannot be assumed to have the same effect, or dose-response, or even safety, as the original molecule? Say if you can synthesize something _like_ garblezolib or whatever, aren't you then faced with all the safety and effectiveness trials that were so expensive for the OEMs?



The end molecule is not patented, the process and pathway to creating it is.

If this software can come up with sufficiently novel pathways other processes can be used to come up with the same drug.

This is the idea anyway.




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