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Re:US Patent Office proposes rule to make it much harder to ... by hodgesrm on Monday June 12, 2023 @09:21PM (#36303882)
You are also right. I was responding to this. (Italics mine)

> Like, if the government (or anybody, really) wants an invention to be open,

The government literally does want inventions to be open. It's in Article 1, Section 8, Clause 8 of the constitution. [0]

  [The Congress shall have Power . . . ] To promote the Progress of Science and 
  useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the 
  exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.
[0] https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S8-C8-1/...

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