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Can I sell a futuristic patent company
Patents are not granted for ideas, only implementations. Star Trek described the transporter beam and warp drive, but without a working implementation, those are just ideas and not patentable. A good ...
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Can a sci-fi technology be submitted as prior art?
I have pondered this for years as a patent attorney and actually hold a patent for an embodiment using actual technology of a fantasy in a Star Trek episode. I hold the position that a fantasy is ...
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