Patent a design

[Primary]

Should we be able to patent our blueprints? If we are able to patent our own blueprints, so that you cannot copy someone’s idea without paying. I think this should be implemented so that is you are trying to make money off a idea you don’t just get it stolen by some one else. 

[Lethys]

This was already discussed in length here. There are at least 3 topics on that one

[Primary]

Lol

[Veln]

 

[MacMazing]

Great idea.

[Darkarma]

As a person who's real life job (one of them) is patents, I'm going to go out on limb here and say no. We don't need that kind of baggage on our ship designs. Now if you are talking about Read only blueprints that doesn't allow a ship to be edited upon being created/printed. Sure. But all the hassle of locking out reverse engineering?

 

No. Just no.