Comment on Could I patent harmful technology to prevent it from being put on the market?
blackbelt352@lemmy.world 3 months agoThat’s… not how eminent domain works…? Like it’s scope only applied to stuff like building sidewalks, roads, bridges, and other infrastructure.
tilefan@lemm.ee 3 months 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.
blackbelt352@lemmy.world 3 months 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.