Cephus
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No it applies to defense contractors; such as, Lockheed Martin, now he may have been able to claim ownership of the Arc Reactor itself. however, any weapons systems that were designed while Stark Enterprises was under government military contract would be government property, as I already stated the prototype itself was built from the parts of weapons systems specifically designed for the military. Think about it, Lockheed Martin can't designed an advanced multi-role fighter, claim proprietary ownership and refuse to give it to the government and instead put it on the open market.
Which is actually ridiculous. The prototype, at least going by the movie version, was built from stolen parts under duress in a cave in the middle of the desert. The U.S. government could no more claim ownership of the Mk. I than the Russians could if he was also using stolen Russian components. By the time he built the Mk. II suit, he had already given up the weapons business. The ARC reactor was specifically said, again in the movies, to have been an experiment in non-weapons technology, hence it wouldn't have been something designed or built for the military. Lockheed-Martin is still a contractor for the military. If they quit and started designing civilian craft, the government would have no control over them.