Comment on Could I patent harmful technology to prevent it from being put on the market?

tilefan@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• blackbelt352@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  That’s… not how eminent domain works…? Like it’s scope only applied to stuff like building sidewalks, roads, bridges, and other infrastructure.

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  • tilefan@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    yeah, I didn’t feel like going around to dig up the technical term. everybody knows what I meant, which is why I said it that way.

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    • blackbelt352@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      If you’re not going to take the effort type “can a government use patents” into Google and look at the top link. It took me less than a minute to find that government using a patent is just baked into the patent system. There’s not additional law around it. So it might be better to go the WD 40 route and never actually file a patent to the formula to avoid sharing the formula publicly.

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