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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I assume governments don't care about IP when they build weapons of mass destruction?? I guess they where thinking conventional, war is $€£¥
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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Yes, up to a certain point. Not the bomb itself. That's senseless.
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It's not senseless. Again, it's about consolidating control. If you want to say something is senseless, blame IP law! OSRD took it seriously
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To say that the bomb doesn't need to be cared for by IP procedures means saying it is going to be considered different every other tech;
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...which *Congress* was able and willing to do! But federal government can't do that on its own, during a secret project.
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