So it seems possible that orexin could be patented for use in staying awake (or sleeping), which I had not considered, and which is perhaps what you meant when you wrote this? If so, that would be some helpful nuance to add to your OP as I didn’t know enough about patent law going in to make this distinction, and thought you were talking about patenting orexin the protein, as opposed to the specific use.
I do speak about the patent after the paragraph of using orexin A for narcolpesy 1, so I don’t see that I claimed patenting orexin as such. Besides that use case, registering a patent for using it for depression might be possible as well. Having a new depression meditation that uses a different pathway than the existing ones might plausibly be a drug that produces billions in revenue per year.
So it seems possible that orexin could be patented for use in staying awake (or sleeping), which I had not considered, and which is perhaps what you meant when you wrote this? If so, that would be some helpful nuance to add to your OP as I didn’t know enough about patent law going in to make this distinction, and thought you were talking about patenting orexin the protein, as opposed to the specific use.
I do speak about the patent after the paragraph of using orexin A for narcolpesy 1, so I don’t see that I claimed patenting orexin as such. Besides that use case, registering a patent for using it for depression might be possible as well. Having a new depression meditation that uses a different pathway than the existing ones might plausibly be a drug that produces billions in revenue per year.
After reading https://www.reddit.com/r/Peptides/ I do think that there might be a longer post written about the general topic of medical use of peptides.