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Would that be legal, considering they have a patent (pending) for it? Not denying it won't appear anyway just curious

It is illegal in places that have rule of law.

This is to create a risk reduction mechanism for investing in capital to make this at scale, which will cost on the order of $100-500M to scale for world use through trial and error.

If IP is ignored, no business will invest in the initial experiments due to first mover disadvantage in game theory.

>If IP is ignored, no business will invest in the initial experiments due to first mover disadvantage in game theory.

Not if you belive that

This has been shown to be historically true, because startup costs can be tens to hundreds of million in R&D.

The business that spends will have their workers immediately poached if they don’t have IP protecting their initial startup costs.

I'm not sure how it works, but this was the first result:

> Patents are territorial and must be filed in each country where protection is sought.

[0] https://www.stopfakes.gov/article?id=Is-My-US-Patent-Good-in...

Not a patent attorney, but as far as I know: The patent is currently pending (as in, being evaluated to see if it will be granted). Once it is granted in one country it can be expanded to multiple countries within a couple of months, given that the first country is part of the Patent Cooperation Treaty. So if an invention is marked “patent pending”, you know you will have the risk of being sued by said company at some time in the future if you copy the invention.

Dude with something this important to humanity give everyone involved a couple million then let it run wild

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