Ownership of Technologies
Any technology developed by a settlement or one of its members shall be entered into the patent system to help provide each settlement additional funds from patent usage fees, unless the developer declares it public domain for the settlement.
The settlement government may pickup one of its public domain patents or declare it fully public domain. Only the originating settlement may pick the patent up and only during the first standard earth-solar day after the declaration of public domain. It is presumed that settlements will have one of three policies on this issue: Automatically assume ownership of the public domain technology patents, assumption of patent based on application of technology, and automatically releasing to the general public domain.
