10/8/1935: British War Office rejects Leo Szilard's offer to turn over nuclear patents. http://ow.ly/SgvD30fGRNS @wellerstein @PhysicsToday
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If filed in USA, US either would have decided it was not reduced to practice at time (which wd have been correct), or it would have gone 1/
route that it did with the Fermi/Amaldi slow neutrons patent: http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/501097 …
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Which is to say: the US would not have let it get in their way at all. They had various means of doing that: http://alexwellerstein.com/publications/wellerstein_patentingthebomb(isis).pdf …
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interesting point companies need to have person as inventor on patents, it can't be just company. Wonder if same applies countries / Nat lab
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I assume governments don't care about IP when they build weapons of mass destruction?? I guess they where thinking conventional, war is $€£¥
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They did care — because IP is about control, and they care about control. See my article: http://alexwellerstein.com/publications/wellerstein_patentingthebomb(isis).pdf …
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Patenting the Bomb has stopped no nations from developing nuclear weapons.
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Think point others can’t stop US possessing or using. Also interesting US owns patent Ebola Viruses too. So full rights vaccine / treatment.
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No nation will honor patent on mass destruction weapon. To patent is insane.
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The point is domestic control and control over scientists that worked for the project.
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