>>How does that work? Does the government patent it instead ?
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>No, the Government just stops you from patenting it, it you can't patent it in any other country or discuss it with anyone.
So if no-one in the U.S. has patented the idea and it is subsequently (and independlently) discovered in another nation then a non-US entity will reap the benefit ? In that case, would the U.S. choose to flout international patent agreements and allow unlicensed use of the technolgy in the US?
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