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| Authored by: Tolerance on Friday, February 01 2013 @ 03:07 PM EST |
I think it was the TIME/LIFE science library which issued a
book ("Machines") in 1964 - nearly fifty years ago - which
observed that originally the patent office did in fact demand
a working model, but that by the end of the nineteenth
century that requirement was abandoned ...
Jefferson was probably rotating in his grave at that point.
By 1964 I imagine you could have got useful power linking up
a dynamo. By now ...
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, February 02 2013 @ 09:57 AM EST |
I'm extremely happy for a patent holder to have to store the working model, but
what is to stop the model holder from modifying the model so that it conforms to
modern thinking (ie incorporates other ideas) or to the thing being sued over
(though this would rather hamper any further usage of a vague patent as like a
quantum particle, now that it has been read, it has finally settled into a
state).[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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- Which is why - Authored by: Wol on Saturday, February 02 2013 @ 02:57 PM EST
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