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It's a good thing there aren't a lot of patents in the space industry, or aren't enforced as heavily as they could be.
by nextparadigms 14y ago
It's a good thing there aren't a lot of patents in the space industry, or aren't enforced as heavily as they could be.
- saalweachter 14y agoThe patents on all these components expired before I was born.
- scrumper 14y agoI'm not sure whether it was possible for the private companies contracted by the space program to patent their publicly-funded work. Interesting to see what happens now that private enterprise is running its own programs alongside the government. I believe there will be a distinct chilling of relations between the main private players in a few years, once their main competition becomes each other rather than the government.
- jlgreco 14y agoI am not sure it is possible for private companies to patent rocket work, with help from the public or otherwise. Rocket technology is heavily export controlled.