patent law Archives - SpaceNews https://spacenews.com Covering the business and politics of space Mon, 03 Mar 2025 20:31:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://spacenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/cropped-SN_forza_star-32x32.png patent law Archives - SpaceNews https://spacenews.com 32 32 80681979 Patenting space: promoting innovations and patents for exploring our final frontier https://spacenews.com/patenting-space-promoting-innovations-and-patents-for-exploring-our-final-frontier/ https://spacenews.com/patenting-space-promoting-innovations-and-patents-for-exploring-our-final-frontier/#respond Wed, 05 Mar 2025 14:00:00 +0000 https://spacenews.com/?p=513780

Whether you’re NASA Administrator nominee Jared Isaacman, Virgin Galactic Founder Richard Branson, Artemis mission specialist Christina Koch, or even fictional astronaut and self-proclaimed “space pirate” Mark Watney, setting out on […]

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]]> https://spacenews.com/patenting-space-promoting-innovations-and-patents-for-exploring-our-final-frontier/feed/ 0 513780 Navigating the legal landscape of space mining: interpreting international space law https://spacenews.com/navigating-the-legal-landscape-of-space-mining-interpreting-international-space-law/ https://spacenews.com/navigating-the-legal-landscape-of-space-mining-interpreting-international-space-law/#respond Wed, 18 Dec 2024 14:00:00 +0000 https://spacenews.com/?p=509955 Illustration of a futuristic space mining operation generated for SpaceNews via DALL-E.

As I write this, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is making its long journey to an asteroid named 16 Psyche. When it arrives, it may confirm the presence of minerals which, when […]

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