Re: WTF patents

On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 08:52:27 -0600, the renowned "Clark"
<CP@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Another thing is the Patents do not have to work, and in many cases some
>could never work.

IIRC, allegedly perpetual motion machines are an exception to that
rule, by official policy anyway, for the USPTO.


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