[aculeus]

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[11Bush]

duped by false science

Should we ping the 'global warming' crowd?

[Jeff Head]

Well, should they, or when they, get one working...get back to me. It will be an historic and monumental day, but I am not holding my breath.

[clee1]

OK.... so where's my phaser... or how about that remarkable fuel-saving device, the transporter???

[ASA Vet]

alters the curvature of space-time outside the craft

Warp field?

[Red Badger]

propelled by a superconducting shield that alters the curvature of space-time outside the craft in a way that counteracts gravity.

He patented Hillary's Lovely Thighs?...........

[norraad]

Remnants of past thinking;

In the late 1800's the patent office once thought everything that could be invented had already been invented.

[LibWhacker]

Park said the action shows patent examiners are being duped by false science.

The patent office needs to hire more Einsteins.

Or at least examiners who've taken a little bit of physics.

[Millee]

for a space vehicle propelled by a superconducting shield that alters the curvature of space-time outside the craft in a way that counteracts gravity.

Crap, I've been working on that very thing too. Sigh...back to the drawing board....

[Semper Paratus]

Sounds like a warp drive.

[Jack Wilson]

Anti-gravity device: a ladder?

[untrained skeptic]

"One of the main theoretical arguments against anti-gravity is that it implies the availability of unlimited energy.

"If you design an anti-gravity machine, you've got a perpetual-motion machine," Robert Park of the American Physical Society told Nature. "

Only if it's a perpetual anti-gravity machine.

Something that counters the effects of gravity does not by definition require unlimited energy. That should be obvious.

[thulldud]

In related news, Amazon.com received a patent on an improvement that lets the user develop an antigrav warp field with one click.

[freedomlover]

I am a patent atty and have not looked at this but if anyone wants a PDF of it go to
http://www.pat2pdf.org/
and type in the #

[Bigh4u2]

How is it perpetual motion if all you are doing is blocking the effects of gravity?

[joesnuffy]

Now all I need is some stock in an 'upsidaisium' mine.

Upsidaisium

[Rutles4Ever]

Otherwise known as a bong?

[BigCinBigD]

Where are the flying cars? THEY SAID THERE WOULD BE FLYING CARS!

[King David]

This sounds like it's in the same category as those X-ray glasses I used to read about in comic books...

[Gorzaloon]

Park said the action shows patent examiners are being duped by false science.

Hardly surprising, since the USPTO is being forced to hire 900 more examiners. It's not a bad job for a recent grad with no experience, actually, and not always a bad start, since Einstien appears to have done OK.

But my recent experiences with Office Actions are making me pretty cynical about the value of dealing with the entire situation.

Imagine this:

There are not many places where an employee gets OJT while costing the client legal fees approaching $300/Hour, down a bottomless rat hole that has no end in sight, sometimes for years.

[dhs12345]

LOL.

By the time they figure out how to do it, the patent will have long since expired. But, hey the guy got is name and idea in the patent records for posterity.

Besides, there is still the issue of implementation.