Is Salivax patented?
The inner workings of Salivax are held as trades secret to prevent unauthorized duplication. Once a patent is applied for it is published by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) thus making all the tricks of the trade public. It is then very easy for a lot of unscrupulous entities to copy. ImmunoScience has chose to hold the technology as a trade secret (similar to the formula for Coca Cola) to prevent such copying. Some parts of the test have patent applications pending.
