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Authored by: Steve Martin on Monday, May 06 2013 @ 06:23 PM EDT |
Read
"Expanded Universe."
Heinlein
also pretty well described a waterbed when he
wrote about the bed in which
Valentine Michael Smith rested
after his voyage from Mars to the Earth, in
"Stranger in a
Strange Land."
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Authored by: Wol on Tuesday, May 07 2013 @ 05:23 PM EDT |
Okay, my fault for not being clear, I was thinking more along the lines of being
invalid for not describing patentable material (in which case it can't be prior
art because it can't precede another valid patent :-).
And even in the case of the water bed, it's not prior art in the sense that, if
it was *valid* prior art, it would have been granted. If Heinlein's book
invalidated the waterbed patent, then the patent cannot be needed to invalidate
the next patent because the Heinlein book will do a better job :-)
Cheers,
Wol[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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