Patenting obvious methods in Microbiology of the Built Environment?
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(edited 7:15pm 3-7-16, to make it clear this was a patent application not a patent) So I got an e-mail from Jonathan Eisen this morning asking me if I had seen this tweet about a patent application regarding surveying the microbiome of the built environment: @watermicrobe this reads like “materials and methods” sections for most …