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The odd thing here is that the satire description predates the patent monopoly by six years, and may count as prior art.
by Falkvinge 14y ago
The odd thing here is that the satire description predates the patent monopoly by six years, and may count as prior art.
- Bud 14y agoPlease let this happen, so that we may all come to believe more fervently in the goddess of karma.
- anothermachine 14y agoThat's ridiculous. Saying "wouldn't it be cool" isn't prior art. Describing a working system is.
- michaelfeathers 14y agoMaybe the law has changed but I heard that a patent for a waterbed was once refused because Robert Heinlein had described one in a novel.