XPost: comp.lang.misc, sci.physics.relativity   
   From: ttt_heg@web.de   
      
   Am Montag000008, 08.12.2025 um 09:06 schrieb Janis Papanagnou:   
   > 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   
      
   Sure, but what is already invented in Germany ins't new in the USA neither.   
      
   'New' means really new.   
      
   If something is already published anywhere, the 'newness' is missing.   
      
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   TH   
      
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