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Wednesday, May 19, 2010

366. Watered down by prior art?

When Charles Hall approached the US Patent Office in 1968 for patenting one of his recent inventions - the water-bed - , his application was refused because descriptions of a waterbed constituting “prior art” had already appeared in at least three novels by this writer.

Which writer?

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Unknown said...

Robert A Heinlein