Some Light-hearted Science, and some of it is real.

by Deb on June 23, 2011

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Krys June 23, 2011 at 4:57 pm

What? How can they patent the wheel??? (The pdf didn’t want to load for me)

As an ex-electronics engineer, I’m very familiar with magic smoke. Silicon chips are so full of it, it was always a battle keeping it contained 🙂

Deb June 23, 2011 at 8:43 pm: It was a new type of patent called an innovation patent, I’m sure he did it to show how the system could be rorted. As far as I can tell they are granted automatically, but you can’t sue anyone for infringement or threaten them unless you have your invention examined. At which point this one would fail miserably!
I think it’s a cheaper way for people to protect things they are working on.

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