C1549 A Top Student Can Investigate a Case
The sample doesn't matter, the sample can be made without it, so the loss isn't too great, but the process of being stolen along with the sample is fatal.
Once the process was grasped by someone, it meant that the other party could also produce the same sample.
If that was the case, they would have no advantage at all.
No one could accept the result of their painstaking research