Randy Lewis and his lab at the University of Wyoming were the first to discover and sequence spider silk genes. These sequences were patented by the University of Wyoming. Lewis knows better than anyone that Kraig Labs owns the exclusive rights to commercialize these sequences in silkworms from the University of Wyoming.
He can do whatever he wants in a lab with whatever new group of scientists he wants, but he knows damn well that he can't commercialize them. Patents don't keep people from doing research.
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