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[–] 3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

afaik, patents don't care about that. You can even patent things that don't exist.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    You can but in practise you would have an immensely hard time enforcing that.

    People have taken patents out for FTL drives but if one is ever invented it would be pretty difficult to claim that they have the rights to the invention.

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