NorthWest Biotherapeutics Inc (NWBO)

[anders2211]

flip, Im not a patent attorney but I do know that its not uncommon for inventors, after consulting with their patent attorney, to submit overlapping patents with small differences to enhance the chance of being accepted after first filing. This is especially so when the inventor and lawyer have on some details some doubts about how to describe it to make the invention really unique. If they don't do that what happens is that patent trolls could pick up a rejected patent, rewrite the part for what it has been rejected for, and then file it as a completely new invention. I hate those patent trolls they should be prohibited but that is probably me as a socialistic European talking :)

And yes its often a waste of resources.