From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/4904 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Toby Bartels Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: patenting colimits? Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 12:22:28 -0700 Message-ID: Reply-To: Toby Bartels NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1243483504 20713 80.91.229.12 (28 May 2009 04:05:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 04:05:04 +0000 (UTC) To: categories@mta.ca, zoran skoda Original-X-From: categories@mta.ca Thu May 28 06:05:01 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from mailserv.mta.ca ([138.73.1.1]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1M9WrU-0007n7-UA for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 May 2009 06:05:01 +0200 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1M9WHw-0000vQ-42 for categories-list@mta.ca; Thu, 28 May 2009 00:28:16 -0300 Content-Disposition: inline Original-Sender: categories@mta.ca Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:4904 Archived-At: zoran skoda wrote in part: >But in american law it is theoretically possible that in times when there >was not a single nuclear submarine, one registers a patent >for the idea/concept nuclear submarine without >any specific techincal details on construction. This is a good example, since if you read Feynman's account of how he didn't get the patent for that (but did for other things), you can see how the ideas that he got patents for really *were* "obvious at the time the invention was made to a person having ordinary skill in the art to which said subject matter pertains" (to quote current law, which may have been different in 1945). But of course, the patent office had no way of knowing that. Here's an abbreviated account: http://ipho2008.hnue.edu.vn/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=uwXCnR4Vj4E%3D&tabid=97&mid=723 --Toby [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]