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| Authored by: PJ on Wednesday, August 29 2012 @ 09:46 AM EDT |
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, August 29 2012 @ 12:01 PM EDT |
When I was young, the story was around that because Jules
Verne described the periscope in 20000 leagues, it could not
be patented.
I also remember a lawyer described in Feynman's auto
biography. He was walking around Los Alamos and getting
ideas for patentable inventions involving nuclear power. The
lawyer then wrote up patents and applied for them in the
physicists name. SO you can even patent nonexistent
technology.
As an aside
I remember that the lawyer then came with patent
assignments, one dollar per patent. When Feynman's turn came
he had three patents. He wouldn't sign till he got him
money. The lawyer tried to point out to Feynman that it was
just a foprmality, but in the end gave him three dollars out
of his own pocket. The other physicists found out and
demanded their dollars. Needless to say the lawyer was not
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| Authored by: JamesK on Wednesday, August 29 2012 @ 12:31 PM EDT |
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The prior art was in Heinlen's 1942 novel Beyond This Horizon
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Then Star Trek and 2001: A Space Odyssey, among many other shows, should knock a
lot of the wind out of Apples sails.
BTW, I guess this means I won't be able to patent my transporter. ;-)
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