Reckh asked:
Say a science fiction writer has thought up and used a piece of technology in one of his/her books. Is there any legal parameters if I thought that technology was possible to develop, and wished to do so?
If a company suddenly released a product that was described by a work of fiction, it seems logical that someone would point to them and say “Hey, that’s [so and so's] idea”, and thus infringe copyright?
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Copyright law would apply if you used text from the author to promote it. You’d probably bump into trademark issues if you named it the same as the author, so don’t do that.
What you’re most interested in is patent law; if you physically develop something first, then generally you get first claim to it. Literature and speculation is not patentable.
No. Jules Verne basically imagined the nuclear submarine in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Scores of items have been imagined by writers and then later developed by inventors.