4DS - Anything but Charting, page-29705

The patents offer 20 years of protection against someone commercialising the product and making money from it.

However, as the company has said, the real money lies in the "cookbooks" that Ting has saved in his brain and in a secure off line storage.

Put it this way - if KFC chicken had a patent on it - the patent would discuss the broad brush method of cooking the chicken (chicken rolled in flour with herbs and spices and cooked in a deep fryer) - the exact recipe outlining the ratios of herbs and spices remains a company secret.