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Comment by justinclift | Hacker News Reader

> His patent application was eventually denied on the basis that it was "wholly theoretical, everything being based upon calculation and nothing upon trial or demonstration."

The standards for what's considered patentable have certainly changed for the worse since then.

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These days it's more like:

    for x in `cat /usr/share/dict/words`; do
        submit-patent "airship filled with $x"
    done

My airship is full of eels

Outstanding comment! Bound to fly over the head of some in HN.

It’s an airship, it’s bound to fly over all of our heads. Unlike those pesky hovercraft.

Sorry, I can't help myself.

https://mywiki.wooledge.org/DontReadLinesWithFor

Oh hai, I see you are building a bike shed. You might consider a curl call over to OpenAI for all the method/apparatus/etc patent-talk.

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