I 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

I 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.