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March-In Rights: NASA Life-Support Patent Simulator

Simulate the Bayh-Dole Act march-in-rights clock on a federally-funded space life-support patent: tune commercialization effort and the 'reasonable time' window, and watch exclusivity erode into a government license when practical application lags.

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Space life-support hardware — CO₂ scrubbers, water recovery loops, oxygen generators — is overwhelmingly developed under NASA funding, which means its patents almost always fall under the Bayh-Dole Act: the contractor keeps title, but the government keeps a standing license and the power to march in if commercialization stalls. This simulator runs that clock live — a logistic model of practical-application progress driven by a tunable commercialization-effort slider, racing against an accruing march-in risk score once a tunable "reasonable time" window elapses — and renders the outcome as a rotating patented module whose exclusivity shield erodes over the 20-year statutory term and collapses to the government-license floor, with rival licensee satellites appearing, the moment march-in is invoked.

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Run the Bayh-Dole Act march-in-rights clock on a federally funded space life-support patent: tune commercialization effort and the 'reasonable time' window, and watch exclusivity erode into a government license when practical application lags.

spacepatentsbayh-dolelife-supportpolicyengineering

3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install

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