26th September 2005, 3:35 PM
Just so you know, the patent office tends to patent things that can't even work, all too often.
It turns out that they get so many quack devices they just end up more or less shoving them through the door rather than deal with all the research they would all require if they actually checked to see what can and can't actually work. They can draw an estcher (sp?) painting and get it patented at this point...
It turns out that they get so many quack devices they just end up more or less shoving them through the door rather than deal with all the research they would all require if they actually checked to see what can and can't actually work. They can draw an estcher (sp?) painting and get it patented at this point...
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)