I have recently seen things about bad (or non existent) data in papers, but this Nature news piece points out that two patent applications are proceeding in California, despite doubts over the accuracy of the data they contain.
Patents are not based on data, the news item says, but on claims that the invention is a new one. Although, in the USA, inventors sign a declaration that everything in the patent application is true to the best of their knowledge.
One of the people filing the patent was sacked last year for fabricating data in a published paper.
>>>Read the Nature news item.
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