Comment on Has a patent office ever refused to grant a patent to something on the grounds it was too obscene?
iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com 1 week agoIt’s also possible that the military had been using such a device for decades and it was actually prior art that invalidated the patent, but this was lost in the retelling. 🤔
toadjones79@lemm.ee 1 week ago
I have no idea. It may have even be n a false claim. But I do believe the government can pay claim to a patent if it wants to. Like, if you invented a new kind of bomb, like say you figured out how to make a device that could create a decent amount of antimatter in a second row two, specifically loaded into a warhead, I’m pretty sure the government would take that from you and all your research. And it would be illegal to publish the design.
But I’m no lawyer and am merely guessing.
Droechai@lemm.ee 1 week ago
The hobby antimatter bomb makers are just the new version of gunsmiths working out of their garage workshops
cheese_greater@lemmy.world 1 week ago
A lkid manufactured an atomic bomb in his makeshift backyard nuclear shed