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0 pointsTerr_2y ago0 comments

> in the US, you can't patent a material

I'm no patent lawyer, but there is literally a US patent-office category covering "material" for exactly this kind of invention. Section 505 - "Superconductor Technology: Apparatus, Material, Process".

> This is the generic class for subject matter involving (a) superconductor technology above 30 K and (b) Art collections involving superconductor technology. Apparatus, devices, materials, and processes involving such technology are included herein.

https://www.uspto.gov/web/patents/classification/uspc505/def...

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tadfisher2y ago

I'm assuming "Art collections" means something other than the common meaning, or else that's an oddly specific clause.

jxf2y ago

It means "art" in the broad sense of "prior art" (e.g. a creative endeavor), not art in the sense of MoMA or the Louvre. Though both kinds of art are beautiful in their way.

scarmig2y ago

Yeah, apparently wrong. Not a lawyer, obviously, recovering physicist/current SWE.

lanstin2y ago

I have been SWE for 30 years. My youngest is off to college and I immediately enrolled in a masters program, apparently because I want to understand QFT which no amount of my own reading without doing much homework has enabled.

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