Is it Possible to Patent a Diet of Non-GM and Non-GMO Foods?

Is it possible? Yes.

If the 'inventors' can convince the patent office that the method is an invention that is 'non-obvious' and creates a new 'art' that has never been described before, the patent office may issue a patent.

But that's only half the process. Other companies that have been pursuing non-GMO diets can argue that the information is in the public domain, or that part of it has been published before, or that the information is obvious, that prior art exists invalidating the claims, etc. If they have a financial interest in fighting the patent they can try to convice the patent office to rescind the patent.

Also, the patent owner must pay a yearly fee to keep the patent in force. If he/she/they decide there is no financial gain from the patent, they may decide not to pay the fee and allow it to lapse.

Unless you have really deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep pockets, don't bother.

These "designer" patents aren't defendable unless you have an army of lawyers.

Agreed. The only way a patent is valuable to an individual (other than bragging rights) is to sell to a company with the resources to capitalize on it and to defend it.

Assume the 'instigators of global thiocyanate deficiency' have $666,666,666,666,666.66 dollars to work with, ($50 billion in 1945 dollars).

I guess you can pretty much patent anything if you have the time and money...that doesn't mean it works...

https://www.metabunk.org/debunked-aids-cure-patent-us-patent-5676977.t3861/

I'll drop a couple of ideas in the thread. Please be warned that all I remember about patent court is that engineers go months on 4 hours of sleep a night and that is a real bummer.

My ideas are:

1) You can't literally get a patent for anything but when you look through patents it sure seems like you can.

2) In many cases it is so expensive to defend a patent that it is not worth doing.

3) An infringer faces huge expenses and long periods of "a dark cloud over their company" in a patent fight. Therefore they might stop infringing or negotiate a license fee rather than fighting (even if the patent can't be enforced).

4) As the potential profits get bigger the "war chest" to buy lawyers and expert witnesses gets bigger. This often means the bigger the bucks the better the ability to defend a patent.

5) Even if a patent can't be enforced it can act like a bit of an insurance policy. Patent Trolls often dig up weakly related patents or file their own weakly related patent. They then use the threat of a long an expensive fight to extort license fees. With your own patent (even if it is likely not enforceable) you are in a better position to tell them to buzz off.

6) When marketing material is produced you can brag about your patent(s) and hope to benefit from sales. There is no need to include in the marketing material that the patent might not be enforceable.

7) Good patent, bad patent, win, loose, it doesn't matter. Lawyers will make a lot of money.

8) Lawyers have interns because they can't haul around all the money by themselves.

9) I know this isn't true but many people will see "PATENT = SAFE", "PATENT = EFFECTIVE" and "PATENT = WORTH MONEY". Thus, possibly $$$$$ for the patent holder.

"This week, in a double blind study to cure Congeintal Borreliosis, it has been found that the problem of Congenital Lyme Induced Regressive Autism was not the Mitochondria, but a total Thiocyanate Deficiency that allowed low grade inflammation of the the Superior Cervical Ganglion to block the nerve impulses going to the facial and vocal muscles controlling speech."

"In the two week pre-antibiotic dietary enhancement portion of the trial, it is becoming completely obvious to even the most casual observer that Autism is simply a symptom of Lyme Induced Thiocyanate Deficiency and not related to Mitochondrial debilitation."

I'm not going to go into detail here, but what you are doing here is a faulty argument, you are using INduction rather than DEduction. "It has been discovered that the problem of one specific form of autism is this; therefore this is the problem of ALL autism." That is like looking out your window, seeing one white sheep, and concluding that ALL sheep are white.

For example, what about people who are autistic, but have never been exposed to Lyme disease? How can they have Lime Induced ANYTHING when there is no Lyme there to do the inducing?

The study is to cure Congenital Lyme but the Congenital Lyme Induced Autism symptoms started to go away before the antibiotics were started. Only non-GM/GMO foods were used to eliminate the Thiocyanate Deficiency which has been part of the Pulsed Lyme Cure since 2011.

If the Neutrophils, the most common white blood cell in the body, and which call the macrophages to clean up inflammation and dead cell tissue, self-destruct without thiocyanate, any kind of cellular debris that does not get removed will result in inflammation in the CSF.

I wonder if it's possible to patent a diet at all. I suspect it's impossible to enforce such a patent if granted. How does one stop people anywhere from obtaining foods conforming to the diet on their own?

Then too, I suspect that when word gets out someone is trying to patent a diet of non-GMO foods, a horde of people who've published diets purporting to cure disorders by avoiding certain foods and consuming others will rise up citing prior art as a disqualifying factor.

Disclaimer: I am neither a nutritionist nor an attorney, and this is neither nutritional nor legal advice.

Consult a patent troll.

If there's a way to screw someone they will have thought of it, and used it.

Company with no product wins $533M verdict vs. Apple ...

That particular story isn't over, Lyn.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/07/judge-tosses-jurys-533m-patent-verdict-against-apple-orders-new-trial/

It's going to Round 2.

Well, we cured Congenital Lyme Induced Regressive Autism in kids this month using only non-GM/GMO food supplements, no other meds except 10 drops of Wild Cherry Bark Extract a day to go along with the food. 180 families in the group. Full recovery looks promising but the trial is only 4 weeks into the full 90 days to get rid of the Lyme with a two week dietary regimen included in it. Kids come back with full personalities and can SING!

So I guess food IS medicine!

http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=20160002277.PGNR.&OS=DN%2F20160002277&RS=DN%2F20160002277