EMBO Reports
Volume 23 Issue 2 3 February 2022
https://www.embopress.org/toc/14693178/current

Science & Society 16 December 2021
Preprint servers and patent prior art: Preprints can jeopardize the patentability of an invention
Jacob S Sherkow
Posting papers on preprint servers creates patent ‘prior art’ and is likely to affect the patentability of any underlying invention.