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> His patent application was eventually denied on the basis that it was "wholly theoretical, everything being based upon calculation and nothing upon trial or d
by justinclift 3y ago
> His patent application was eventually denied on the basis that it was "wholly theoretical, everything being based upon calculation and nothing upon trial or demonstration."
The standards for what's considered patentable have certainly changed for the worse since then.
- dvh 3y agoThese days it's more like: for x in `cat /usr/share/dict/words`; do submit-patent "airship filled with $x" done
- dodslaser 3y agoMy airship is full of eels
- glumreaper 3y agoOutstanding comment! Bound to fly over the head of some in HN.
- appplication 3y agoIt’s an airship, it’s bound to fly over all of our heads. Unlike those pesky hovercraft.
- rascul 3y agoSorry, I can't help myself. https://mywiki.wooledge.org/DontReadLinesWithFor https://mywiki.wooledge.org/DontReadLinesWithFor
- adolph 3y agoOh hai, I see you are building a bike shed. You might consider a curl call over to OpenAI for all the method/apparatus/etc patent-talk.