Scientists don't want information released to public
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I don't mean to come across as rude, but you do realize patents are literally published when issued? It's rather the whole point of the system: to allow those practiced in the art to reproduce the work.
If you say so. Dont see anyone driving around with hydrogen cars if they are able to just get it from the patent office. Or maybe even figure out what pfizers secret ingredient is that shows up in their product. I know you can get access to some items, but your saying all of them are excessable? If so there wouldnt be any competition. All motherboard manufacturers would be the same, but they arent because of their proprietary products that arent available to be reproduced.
Gotta pay hefty licensing fees or wait for the patent to expire (17 years).
That's why a bunch of TCGs started appearing after Wizards of the Coast's patent on Magic expired.
u/Ninpomike wrote "proprietary patents" but I think he just meant proprietary information, like closed-source code. In that case I'd have to agree that anti-corporate hactivism is way less than what we were promised for our cyberpunk future.
Probably because Anonymous was coopted by the Deep State.