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> The current system is very broken, and allows patents for things like the perpetual motion machine. Actually, they explicitly say 'no perpetual motion machin
by derleth 15y ago
> The current system is very broken, and allows patents for things like the perpetual motion machine.
Actually, they explicitly say 'no perpetual motion machines' or the equivalent (I think they say 'You must provide a working example of something you claim is a perpetual motion machine', which comes to the same thing.) It's a special little carve-out they have to fix that specific problem.
- Natsu 15y agoSadly, that hasn't stopped all of those patents from being issued. See here, for example: http://www.google.com/patents/about/6362718_Motionless_electromagnetic_gener.html?id=-64KAAAAEBAJ http://www.google.com/patents/about/6362718_Motionless_elect...