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What is the value of IP that doesn't work? Edison machine IP seems about as useful as those time travel or perpetual motion machine patents that come up.

• jen20 4y ago
  I'd imagine those machines in particular would be useful as museum pieces.
  • codex_irl 4y ago
    That is what I am thinking.
• jliptzin 4y ago
  Collectibles…definitely a market there
• etaioinshrdlu 4y ago
  I would very much like a Theranos Edison for my office, next to a Juicero.
  • Reason077 4y ago
    Someone ought to make a museum of failed products. These two exhibits would be a great start!
    • Chris2048 4y ago
      https://museumoffailure.com/ https://museumoffailure.com/
• codex_irl 4y ago
  I don't think that the machine IP has much (any) value, more just curious what happened to them from an "oddity" viewpoint e.g. did they get thrown in a dumpster or is there some warehouse out there, packed with all the stuff they cleared out of the old Theranos HQ
  • ghaff 4y ago
    Presumably there are liquidation companies that deal with such things. (There are companies out there to do pretty much anything.)