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minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months agoafaik, patents don’t care about that. You can even patent things that don’t exist.
minus-squarevaultdweller013@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoBrb gonna go patent my own self worth in case it ever comes into existence.
minus-squareFedizen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-22 months agoYou stay away from my patents on wookie slippers that look like human feet.
minus-squareEcho Dot@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoYou can but in practise you would have an immensely hard time enforcing that. People have taken patents out for FTL drives but if one is ever invented it would be pretty difficult to claim that they have the rights to the invention.
afaik, patents don’t care about that. You can even patent things that don’t exist.
Brb gonna go patent my own self worth in case it ever comes into existence.
You stay away from my patents on wookie slippers that look like human feet.
You can but in practise you would have an immensely hard time enforcing that.
People have taken patents out for FTL drives but if one is ever invented it would be pretty difficult to claim that they have the rights to the invention.