History and Philosophy of Physics

    

Brainstorming Physics: What to do About a Patent Policy that is Hurting Physics

Authors: Peter Horst Rehm

Well-intentioned laws and policy that prohibit the patenting of laws of nature have had unintended consequences. Patenting, with its emphasis on novelty and an objective standard of non-obviousness, is a manner of scientific publication that excels at finding and filling literature gaps. The denial of these benefits to natural laws have slowed progress in the fundamentals of physics. Several specific literature gaps are identified herein, each suggesting material that would be both novel and non-obvious according to patent law standards. These examples include the need to reevaluate the role of the electrical force in the atomic nucleus, overlooked mechanics that may explain how mass bends spacetime, and why a very early theory of inertia deserves reconsideration.

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