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Bell Labs win superconductivity patent

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After twelve years of deliberation, a panel of four patent judges has ruled that Bell Labs can exercise the patents it filed on 3 March 1987, when at least four research groups in the United States were racing to discover oxide materials that would attain superconductivity at relatively high temperatures.

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Macilwain, C. Bell Labs win superconductivity patent. Nature 403, 121–122 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/35003008

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