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They literally couldn’t get rich if they kept it out of everybody else’s hands.

Sure they could? That's a common way people get rich off of patents; make a product which uses your new innovation, sell that product, use the patent to prevent everyone else from using the innovation to make competing products.

I believe that's more or less the history of e-ink, among other things.

> sell that product

But if they're keeping it out of everyone's hands, who are they selling it to? Aliens?

They'd be selling to humans of course?

Humans who wouldn't be allowed to use the discovery of room temperature superconductors for anything other than whatever little gimmick the company found out they could sell.

> use the patent to prevent everyone else

> the history of e-ink

Could you give everyone here some verifiable data? Please identify what patent you're talking about. I hope I will get a genuine response from someone who genuinely knows that industry because the last time I asked I just got a patents.google.com/search?q=eink response. It is fun to blame patents. But that's like saying we're not making progress in operating systems because Microsoft owns a key patent in operating systems.

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