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Won't somebody think of the patents...? | 116 comments | Create New Account
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I assume it also applies to snow...
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, April 21 2013 @ 07:41 AM EDT
As long as the snow remains on his property, or where it can
feed into the watershed, it's not a problem.

Water rights & mineral rights are often separate from land
rights in the West. Many states during a drought CANNOT
legally pull more water from the rivers running through
their state, since the water legally belongs to states
downstream. Similarly, cities & towns often buy water
rights of property elsewhere - and if there's a drought, the
owner of that land legally must give the water first to the
owner of the water, and make do with the remainder. If
there's no remainder, no water.

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Won't somebody think of the patents...?
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 22 2013 @ 11:40 AM EDT
Of course it doesn't apply to snow, that's a separate patent.

The frozen H2O has undergone a thermal conversion (insert flow chart here)
thereby transforming it into a "new machine".

And of course, melting the snow would be yet another thermal conversion, so the
resulting product, while appearing identical to the layman, is obviously another
new, patentable invention.

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