If it makes you feel any better, the law on the books would preclude your teleportation example, because the patent is required to be written "in such full, cle

If it makes you feel any better, the law on the books would preclude your teleportation example, because the patent is required to be written "in such full, clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable any person skilled in the art to which it pertains, or with which it is most nearly connected, to make and use" teleportation. http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/documents/appxl_35_U_S_C_112.htm http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/documents/appxl_35... Disclaimer: I can't guarantee that the patent system will operate consistent with the law.