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If this truly is the "Wunder" material no patent will prevent people from synthesizing it. Sure, commercially there would be lawsuits and blocking being able to
by sschueller 3y ago
If this truly is the "Wunder" material no patent will prevent people from synthesizing it. Sure, commercially there would be lawsuits and blocking being able to sell a product based on it but many foreign governments don't care.
Even the US would ignore such patents if it was useful for military usage.
- amluto 3y agoI think it also depends pretty strongly on what the patent says. For one thing, there doesn’t seem to be any strong reason to believe that the superconducting material (if any) is what the LK-99 team thinks it is. For another, lead is nasty, and, if there really is a room temperature superconductor, there will be plenty of interest in finding lead-free materials with similar properties, and those might not be covered by a patent.