NorthWest Biotherapeutics Inc (NWBO)

[Doktornolittle]

You meant patents, right, not patients?

If so, I would agree. Many of the 200 patents might be relatively useless to NWBO. Particularly if many are improvements on their previous patents.

But among other things, the large number of patents shows that an enormous amount of R&D has likely gone on. Something important to note as you look at the number of employees, which is therefore deceptive. And secondly, there is no reason to assume that most of the patents are useless.

Thirdly, the very large number of patents does suggest that some could be improvements on their earlier patents. The older patents then would be ideal for use as collateral on loans. Valuable to some other companies, but of no value to NWBO. This has great potential relevance to the patent controversy brought up by Phase V.

(Correction: 7 currently in Toucan's hands, and 19 in Mehiel's hands, out of about 200 patents generated by "NWBO")