Re: "Have inventors been busy patenting laws of nature, natural phenomena and abstract ideas?"



On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 05:08:15 -0500, "sinister"
<sinister@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Have inventors
been busy patenting laws of nature, natural phenomena and abstract ideas?

No, because only rent seekers ever try to patent such things, never
inventors, and only the Patent Office _can_ patent them.

-- Roy L
.



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