Inventions for battery reuse and recycling increase seven-fold in last decade

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• yahootube 12 hours ago
  This is because of expiring patents which create an artificial inflation of businesses' durable market value for the incumbent allowing them to monopolize the market via supply scarcity. Naturally there would have been more recycling the entire time if it were not restricted by patents.
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  • infecto 11 hours ago
    Which patents were the biggest hold backs in the recycling industry? I am curious how the patent landscape looks today compared to a decade ago. Seems like it would be exploding in more recent history.
  • pfdietz 12 hours ago
    Or, less conspiratorially, it's because the volume of batteries that need recycling has been steadily growing.
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    • mhb 9 hours ago
      Or because the possibility of profits incentivized invention.
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      • outside1234 8 hours ago
        All three of these theories can be true
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        • TeMPOraL 5 hours ago
          In which case the market is working as intended.
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          • Dylan16807 2 hours ago
            If all three are true then the market is 2/3 working as intended and 1/3 held back by patents that aren't being licensed out enough.
          • ezfe 5 hours ago
            Is someone saying otherwise here?
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            • natpalmer1776 3 hours ago
              YahooTube’s comment is heavily implying that the market systems in-place stifled invention via patent restrictions.
    • manoDev 12 hours ago
      Both can be true.
  • halestock 4 hours ago
    Sorry what?
• CalmBirch127 2 hours ago
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