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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, August 01 2012 @ 08:03 PM EDT

I would not think that is prior art. Dr Who does not support a credible theory
of time travel. I would have thought that if I build a time machine my only
legal concerns arise if I make it look like a police box.

I.e. if I patent my time machine and you build one infringing my patent then
surely Dr Who is not prior art even if both are blue and make a whooshing
noise.

Of course, all you do is copy mine, go back in time and make a prior filing so
now I infringe. Which I counter and eventually this falls down when someone has
to file a patent that has expired by the time this nonsense started. Of course,
if either of us invents a time machine then there is much more fun to be had
that mess around with patent law!

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