evidence: FULL CLAIM: [The coronavirus is] "new" yet it was lab-created and patented in 2015 (in development since ‘03) [...] The patent also tells us the CDC helped make this! This claim, which was published in late January 2020, went viral on Facebook within a day and spawned several copycat posts on Facebook, receiving more than 86,000 views. The claim states that "[The coronavirus is] "new" yet it was lab-created and patented in 2015". Similar claims have also been made on Twitter. The rapid spread of this claim on social media has been attributed to QAnon and anti-vaccine groups. [...] Furthermore, the claim states that 2019-nCoV was patented in 2015, but then links to a patent for SARS-CoV-1. SARS-CoV-1 is a different coronavirus—one that caused a 2003 outbreak of more than 8,000 cases of infection in 26 countries. The SARS-CoV-1 outbreak began in the Chinese province of Guangdong and, as with 2019-nCoV, evidence indicates that an animal reservoir—likely civet cats in the case of SARS-CoV-1—was the source of infection. Similar false claims about patents related to 2019-nCoV have inaccurately referenced patents to other coronaviruses, such as the avian infectious bronchitis virus.