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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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