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.
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Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 weeks agoafaik, patents don’t care about that. You can even patent things that don’t exist.
echodot@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Fedizen@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You stay away from patents wookie slippers that look like human feet.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Brb gonna go patent my own self worth in case it ever comes into existence.