When Matthias Rath sued Linus Pauling for his alleged original discoveries in the 90's, The Court Law in the USA dictated that whoever was first to discover the application was the legally entitled bearer to patent protection.
At the time Matthias Rath sued Linus Pauling, the first to discover vitamin C as a way to prevent occlusive arterial diseases, atherosclerosis, so on an so forth was neither Linus Pauling or Matthias Rath, but Constance R Spittle.
The automatic legal machinery then, now, and today would negate and reverse all and every of Matthias Rath's purported legitimacy as holding this intellectual property. How this ruling was made at all points to a complete ignorance in the history of this body of discovery by The Court, probably through sheer ignorance, as the "internet" and "cloud" were not availed to The Court until after these errors. As of 2022, we can see that all and every of Matthias Rath's claims against Linus Pauling were and are invalid as by global law.