XPost: comp.lang.misc, sci.physics.relativity   
   From: janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com   
      
   On 2025-12-08 08:21, Thomas Heger wrote:   
   >   
   > An invention needs to be new. Otherwise it is not an invention.   
      
   Not only new, but also not being something considered trivial or   
   otherwise not "worthy" of being a patent.   
      
   > At least this is the main principle upon which patents are granted in   
   > Germany.   
      
   In the German patent history we can observe that even marvellous   
   inventions have not been granted a patent because the officials   
   could neither understand nor see the actual or potential future   
   relevance and usefulness.   
      
   (My point was the [non-existing] reach of a German patent in the   
   USA.)   
      
   >   
   > The US-patent office is based upon a slightly different principle.   
   >   
   > The main principle is that of a 'claim', which is occupied by some company.   
      
   With a granted patent in Germany you can exploit the commercial   
   gains yourself or with companies licensing the patents during   
   the first years after getting the patent.   
      
   Besides the commercial aspects the primary point of a patent can   
   probably be derived from the meaning of its name; Latin "patere",   
   to be open [for the society], to provide gain for mankind.   
      
   (Semantics in popular recognition may have changed given the   
   prevalence of commercial thinking worldwide.)   
      
   > [snip digressions to 'US copyright' and 'Urheberrecht']   
      
   Janis   
      
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