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Citation needed. Specifically, the patent office required that inventors submit working models of their inventions until 1880 [1]. That doesn't sound to me like

by zipfle 12y ago

Citation needed. Specifically, the patent office required that inventors submit working models of their inventions until 1880 [1]. That doesn't sound to me like the founding fathers' decision. Edit: And they still require working models of anything claiming to implement perpetual motion.[2] [1] http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/18/business/18PATE.html?pagewanted=all http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/18/business/18PATE.html?pagew... [2] http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/s706.html http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/s706.html

Alex3917 12y ago
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pbhjpbhj 12y ago
>And they still require working models // Sorry, can you perhaps quote the bit that says that. In that link I see they reject perpetual motion machines under 35 USC 101 but I don't see the part saying that such an objection can be combated with presentation of a model, or indeed that the objection is made in a form of "submit a working model to continue this application". The USPTO likely has no facilities to examine or even store such models.