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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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;
...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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Atomic Energy Act of 1946 bans patenting of nuclear weapons in US — it is the *only* category of working tech treated that way!
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Which shows the lengths you have to go if you want to make the bomb fall "outside the law" (i.e., you have to change the law).
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Seriously, Alex, if Szilard or anyone had sued for rights to the bomb? Zilch.
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Only because they changed the laws! People in charge of this took a cavalier attitude towards patent law in WWI, and paid for it.
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Read the article I wrote! Or just presume to know, your choice...
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Alex, your article was published in 2008 and I'm quite familiar with it.
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Nations are sovereigns, and do what they want. Legalism be damned.
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Well, you can assert this, etc., but this is clearly NOT how the people in question (gov't lawyers/officials) thought at the time, or acted.
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