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Re:NASA Engineers Resurrect And Test F-1 Engine Gas Generator by nextparadigms on Friday January 25, 2013 @08:49AM (#5115331)
It's a good thing there aren't a lot of patents in the space industry, or aren't enforced as heavily as they could be.
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Re:NASA Engineers Resurrect And Test F-1 Engine Gas Generator by scrumper on Friday January 25, 2013 @10:23AM (#5115801)
I'm not sure whether it was possible for the private companies contracted by the space program to patent their publicly-funded work.

Interesting to see what happens now that private enterprise is running its own programs alongside the government. I believe there will be a distinct chilling of relations between the main private players in a few years, once their main competition becomes each other rather than the government.

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Re:NASA Engineers Resurrect And Test F-1 Engine Gas Generator by jlgreco on Friday January 25, 2013 @11:52AM (#5116354)
I am not sure it is possible for private companies to patent rocket work, with help from the public or otherwise. Rocket technology is heavily export controlled.
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Re:NASA Engineers Resurrect And Test F-1 Engine Gas Generator by saalweachter on Friday January 25, 2013 @10:02AM (#5115689)
The patents on all these components expired before I was born.
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