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> It's Borat trying to patent a hoverboard Wow! That's interesting! While nobody has been paying attention, forward-looking patents have become acceptable (I d
by m3047 5y ago
> It's Borat trying to patent a hoverboard
Wow! That's interesting! While nobody has been paying attention, forward-looking patents have become acceptable (I don't agree that this is a good thing). Seriously, that's a fact; and here comes Holmes apparently claiming to have the science, am I right? There is language which apparently (IANAL) needs to be watched especially around verb tense when filing such patents.
- geophile 5y agoCan you provide some examples?
- m3047 5y agohttps://law.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Fictitious-experiments-in-patents.pdf https://law.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Fictitio... https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3202493 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3202493 One of the harmful externalities of the practice is that when incorrect / impossible prophetic claims are made (and they are), they negatively impact the progress of science since they are generally presumed to be true and so might be used to refute a legitimate science or technical claim.