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Got it. But he did get a patent for the invention.
by vajrabum 2y ago
Got it. But he did get a patent for the invention.
- skissane 2y agoGetting a patent doesn’t mean no prior art exists, it just means the Patent Office can’t find it. That’s true today, but was even more true in the 1950s/1960s when patent offices had access to far less information. It is easy for us to find this 1954 conference proceedings from MIT, how would a patent examiner back then find it, or even know to look for it?
- vajrabum 2y agoMakes perfect sense, and important ideas tend to occur in multiple places over a shortish period of time.