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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, June 04 2013 @ 04:05 PM EDT |
"You can still patent regenerative and work out a license or cross license
with Mr. Mechanical if you like."
In other words, the inventor of the useless and silly bicycle powered battery
charger is gifted by the state with the power to collect money from the work of
scientists and engineers that build a usable product.
Not all that different from a business method patent.
--
Bondfire "thats the way you do it, money for nothin and your chicks for
free"
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- No - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, June 04 2013 @ 04:23 PM EDT
- No - Authored by: bugstomper on Tuesday, June 04 2013 @ 05:30 PM EDT
- No? - Authored by: stegu on Tuesday, June 04 2013 @ 05:52 PM EDT
- you need a cross license for this? - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, June 04 2013 @ 10:27 PM EDT
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| Authored by: PolR on Tuesday, June 04 2013 @ 04:42 PM EDT |
If all forms of mechanical were too broad, then there is some other
form of
"mechanical" in the prior art and the claim is not valid on that
basis.
If there is not "mechanical" prior art, then the claim to all
"mechanical" is
valid and you lost the race.
Samuel Morse tried that kind of
argument when he claimed all uses of electromagnetism for telegraphy purposes
and he lost. It is not possible to invent all uses of mechanical power for a
purpose. You have to point out particularly which use is invented.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, June 04 2013 @ 11:59 PM EDT |
It does not matter what the inventor understood. What merits
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 05 2013 @ 04:24 AM EDT |
I'm not an engineer but I suspect that a regenerative braking
system involves some mechanical linkage to the turning wheels
and so could (would by a lawyer) be defined as a
"mechanically-powered
generator" and so be covered even though it is nothing like
the pedal system of the original inventor.
Welcome to the world of Humpty Dumpty.
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