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Re:China to supercharge uranium race with 150 new nuclear re... by myownpetard on Monday November 08, 2021 @04:55PM (#29154754)
I think it's a reasonable assumption that US fusion companies would have the same patent policy as SpaceX.

Elon is quoted in HBR, “We have essentially no patents. Our primary long-term competition is China. If we published patents, it would be farcical, because the Chinese would just use them as a recipe book."

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Re:China to supercharge uranium race with 150 new nuclear re... by rmbyrro on Monday November 08, 2021 @05:58PM (#29155435)
Or even the US government. Good luck to SpaceX asking the government to enforce its patents against... the government itself!
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Re:China to supercharge uranium race with 150 new nuclear re... by credit_guy on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @03:01AM (#29158960)
Wait, what? The Government protects you against the Government itself all the time. What exactly is tha Bill of Rights?
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Re:China to supercharge uranium race with 150 new nuclear re... by kragen on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @01:38AM (#29158473)
That's the whole point of patents: to be used as a recipe book.
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Re:China to supercharge uranium race with 150 new nuclear re... by VintageCool on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @02:49AM (#29158904)
The deal is that you provide the recipe book in exchange for legal protection and a short-term legal monopoly. The other side of that deal is not honored by China, which is Elon's point.
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Re:China to supercharge uranium race with 150 new nuclear re... by kragen on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @02:57AM (#29158946)
The legal monopoly (which is the same thing as the legal protection) has always been geographically limited, and has always existed at the pleasure of the government granting it.
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