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Sunil Kumar Tripathy
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Natural Resources Research Institute, University of Minnesota, Coleraine, USA.
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Rabah Arezki and Grégoire Rota-Graziosi (Nature 655, 302–305; 2026) make a valuable point by arguing that intellectual property, alongside geology, shapes critical-mineral supply chains. Their proposal of a patent pool modelled on the Medicines Patent Pool deserves serious consideration. That said, the pharmaceutical analogy might not translate fully to minerals.
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Nature 658, 286 (2026)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-026-03054-7
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