Warp wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> The other problem with a lot of patents is they're not "enabling". This 
>> means they don't tell you how to build the actual device.
> 
>   How about patents which require fictional laws of physics in order to
> work? http://www.freepatentsonline.com/6960975.html

I'm not enough of a physicist to know that's "fictional". It certainly 
sounds weird, but then, so does the Casimir effect.

>   This kind of patent would never be granted in Europe (at least in theory)
> because of the requirement that a *working* prototype of the device must
> exist.

Is that still a requirement there? Here they dropped that, so you have 
people patenting things like genetic crosses between goats and humans that 
nobody knows how to actually create, and crap like that.

Even if you have a working prototype, tho, you should still need to reveal 
how it works in order to get a patent. That's the point of the patent, after 
all.


-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Insanity is a small city on the western
   border of the State of Mind.

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