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you ever think about registering a patent on your inventions?

I've thought about it, but the things I'd want to patent are the same as things I wouldn't want to disclose, like the methods I used to make Hal. A lot of the other things I make are based on other people's work and therefore unpatentable. Another aspect of that decision is universal design. I do a lot of work on design, assembly, and upkeep of cybernetics, usually for troll clients. If I started running patents it would make it a lot more difficult for my clients to get their shit repaired when the patent holder is having a depressive episode and their leg isn't working.

#ask #anon #ic #There's also the aspect of intergalactic copyright law.#DSCreate is a registered LLC that holds a couple patents for the sake of having them registered.#One or two of them I've sold for royalties. Ones I don't intend to manufacture myself commercially anyway.#I've still got ahold of our bro's old sites. Reckon I'll keep them up as long as they make more than they cost to keep up.#Not the storefronts. Those were all shut down years ago.#That's only tangentially related. I inherited BSCreate and it's now a subsidiary. It's an apt name.

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