3 ms·
I thought perpetual motion machines claims were automatically denied. I know they were back in the 1970s when my dad worked at the patent office.
by pjdemers 8y ago
I thought perpetual motion machines claims were automatically denied. I know they were back in the 1970s when my dad worked at the patent office.
- andybak 8y agoYes but the interesting aspect of this is that they had to make a specific rule for this case. In the general case of "filing nonsense" the system fails.
- Alex3917 8y ago> I thought perpetual motion machines claims were automatically denied. I think the current policy is they are only patentable if there is a working unit that runs for at least a year when left alone in the patent office.