To: a fool in paradise
The patent office hasn’t required a working prototype for about 100 years.
I never had a prototype of my patent, nor was there interest in the patent office in seeing one.
71 posted on
06/05/2013 11:07:36 AM PDT by
donmeaker
(Blunderbuss: A short weapon, ... now superceded in civilized countries by more advanced weaponry.)
To: donmeaker; The Great RJ
You clearly do not need a working model (’reduced to art’) but to patentable an invention cannot violate the known ‘laws of physics’, hence no perpetual motion machines.
140 posted on
06/06/2013 10:17:27 AM PDT by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(Doing the same thing and expecting different results is called software engineering.)
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