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

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 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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.

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pfdietz 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Or, less conspiratorially, it's because the volume of batteries that need recycling has been steadily growing.

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manoDev 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Both can be true.

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mhb 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Or because the possibility of profits incentivized invention.

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outside1234 4 hours ago | parent [-]

All three of these theories can be true

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TeMPOraL 30 minutes ago | parent [-]

In which case the market is working as intended.

	▲	ezfe 19 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Is someone saying otherwise here?