An early patent disclosure for the production of C60 was already filed in 1987 solely by the University of Arizona. It has been rejected because the method described there was not suitable for providing a sample. (Hargittai & Hargittai, Candid Science V, page 394.
In contrast to the liberal US employee compensation law, in 1990 as today, a German public employer (in this case MPG) claimed 70% of the gross income of a registered patent whereas the inventors' total share is limited to 30%.
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Bernd Wagner had finished his studies as senior high school teacher and has been working since then as physics teacher in the Cologne area. He did not co-author any of the three C60 publications of 1990 and was not considered when the C60 synthesis had been filed with an US patent office.
