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Or they are holding the details of their process close to their chest, in anticipation of a lucrative spin-off.

• hanniabu 3y ago
  A breakthrough of this kind should be illegal to patent
  • shaftoe 3y ago
    Why do you think so?
    • hanniabu 3y ago
      Why do you not think so..... what if the internet was patented? What if copper was patented?
      • solrik 3y ago
        Not comparable to copper at all.
  • mikhailfranco 3y ago
    The formula and atomic structure should not be patentable (like gene sequence), but a novel and non-obvious industrial process to fabricate such material could be patented. There may be many different such patents.