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Does this mean I can patent ideas I pick up from sci-fi, wait till someone implementes it, then pick up a fat cheque from them? Honestly asking, since it sounds
by threepointone 15y ago
Does this mean I can patent ideas I pick up from sci-fi, wait till someone implementes it, then pick up a fat cheque from them? Honestly asking, since it sounds like a half-decent retirement plan.
For example, jetpacks which work on, um, quantum levitation. Bionic ear implants that also act as phones which react to voice input. Occular implants that interface with a system of networked devices across an environments.
- Steko 15y agoThis is a design patent. So if you make a real spaceship that looks like the enterprise and try to get a design patent it may well be that the Trek prior art, even though it wasn't real, invalidates that design.
- JoshTriplett 15y agoAt least in theory, patents have to have a description sufficient to allow someone to create the thing in question. You can't patent any of the things you mentioned unless you specify more detail on how they work. (Insert the usual disclaimers about the lack of diligence in enforcement here.)