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| From | Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | sci.electronics.design, comp.lang.python |
| Subject | Re: Patents (was Re: google reads your mail) |
| Date | 2026-09-19 22:03 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <118n0qu$2klsb$3@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
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On Sun, 20 Sep 2026 02:25:11 +1000, Bill Sloman wrote: > On 19/09/2026 8:04 am, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: >> >> But you don’t need to prove something works before getting a >> patent. > > It's frequently helpful to have a working example. The counter-current > continuous digestor was quite a tricky design - which is why Johan > Richter could never get any of his versions to work - and potential > users would set set up industrial scale trials. What exactly stopped him getting the patent on the idea? Because that’s what patents are -- a Government-granted monopoly on an idea. >> Thomas Edison put together the first working electric light-bulb. >> Did he get the patent on it? No, because that was already taken by >> Joseph Swan. > > Who'd done quite a much development work as Thomas Edison. The patent went to the person who thought of the idea, not the one who made it work. > Both inventors patented much the same invention at much the same > time, and found it expedient to set up a joint company to exploit > them. Only after Edison fought unsuccessfully to overturn Swan’s patent, I believe.
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Re: google reads your mail Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2026-09-17 16:51 +1000
Re: google reads your mail Lane W <cactus_DAC@yahoo.com> - 2026-09-17 02:43 -0600
Re: google reads your mail Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2026-09-17 23:34 +1000
Re: google reads your mail Lane W <cactus_DAC@yahoo.com> - 2026-09-17 08:43 -0600
Re: google reads your mail Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2026-09-18 15:36 +1000
Re: Patents (was Re: google reads your mail) Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-09-18 22:04 +0000
Re: Patents (was Re: google reads your mail) Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2026-09-20 02:25 +1000
Re: Patents (was Re: google reads your mail) Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-09-19 22:03 +0000
Re: Patents (was Re: google reads your mail) Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2026-09-20 16:13 +1000
Re: Patents (was Re: google reads your mail) Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-09-20 08:09 +0000
Re: Patents (was Re: google reads your mail) Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2026-09-20 18:25 +1000
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