..... if you use the word gatekept while asking for vaulted patents it's the same in this instance. Even if publicly available the patent cannot be made or used by anyone who doesn't own the patent, so go look through them and see what you don't see in your everyday life, and those would be considered Vaulted.
Highly efficient solar panels with unique designs, Advanced energy storage systems, Next-generation water purification, a slew of medical patents as well among other things. But again you could easily search for patents not in use and see lists of thousands that aren't commercialized for whatever reason.
Wait did you say easily search through... patents? You know that there is an entire bar exam dedicated just to patent law? And how do you propose to search through the literal millions of patents that aren't commercialized? The level of misunderstanding is mind boggling.
I'm not saying that patent trolling and suppression isn't real, but it's not as easy as you think to go through even one actual patent yourself and fully understand it, let alone thousands. Sure i guess you can search around the internet and see what other people say but it's easy to make fantastic claims so I'd recommend inspecting the patents yourself as well.
It is in fact true that the majority—perhaps the vast majority—of patents are never commercialized.
But it’s conspiracy thinking to imagine that malign forces are holding back useful inventions for… reasons. Most startups fail. When they fail their patents mostly drop into obscurity. Because no one could successfully build a business around that IP.
Patents publish and patents expire. When the business doesnt work out some other innovator can make use of the expired IP or buy the remaining patents and iterate on it.
There we go see if we start from open source we can build in solutions for the OG. Like auto royalties or some shiz. That's what you get a "patent" for is auto royalties for a time period
This is changing. There are still lots of problems enforcing patent rights in China, but it’s possible now for well financed companies with sufficiently valuable rights.
The bigger issue in China is theft of trade secrets.
It expired in 2023. Now freely available for anyone to make and use.
(Note, however, that if there have been subsequent related improvements, you can’t necessarily incorporate them. But you can make anything and everything described in this patent.)
Remember this patents are only good as your relationship to the military, industrial, govermental complex. An thats exactly what has transpired with aero gel they make a small improvment often rediculously simple an you cant do any-thing with it.
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