XPost: comp.lang.misc, sci.physics.relativity   
   From: starmaker@ix.netcom.com   
      
   On Mon, 8 Dec 2025 09:06:46 +0100, Janis Papanagnou   
    wrote:   
      
   >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.   
      
      
   Albert Einstein worked at a patent office and even decided WHO gets   
   the patent. Albert Einstein was bribred to give the patent to the guy   
   who bribed him.   
      
   https://groups.google.com/g/sci.physics.relativity/c/WhZcPHah3Dc/m/QaT6MFBIAAAJ   
      
      
   Did you see the boat they gave him for it?   
      
      
   Albert Einstein told his friends to create FAKE patents!   
   (at least they got a patent on something)   
      
   https://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2014/05/16/szilards-chain-reaction/   
      
      
      
   Only an Einstein can think of fake patents.   
   (he approves it himself)   
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
   >   
   >(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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