The patent office granted a patent on a simple matter of timing in IVF.

I agree that the patent office should not stretch what is patentable.

As a practical issue, the BRCA1 and BRCA2 patents do far more harm, because they kill people. These patents prevent births but do not kill.

In an age when human population growth threatens to cause the collapse of civilization, and destroy most of the natural world either before or just after the collapse, nobody should be doing IVF. If you yearn to raise a child, adopt one. Channel your instinct in a direction that makes the world better, not worse.