Comment by irthomasthomas | Hacker News Reader

Comment by irthomasthomas | Hacker News Reader

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I think we're being trolled. Or trawled. Not sure which, yet. But the mention of Salvatore Cezar Pais in the patent should be enough to put this to bed for serious folks.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36967333

In case you aren't familiar with the man's work, here are some highlights of his discoveries over the last decade:

Conditional possibility of spacecraft propulsion at superluminal speeds

High frequency gravitational waves-induced propulsion

Piezoelectricity-induced room temperature superconductor

Craft using an inertial mass reduction device

On the Existence of the Superforce–the possible fundamental Force of Unification

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=7%2C39&q=Sal...

I can't wait for my cheap antigrav FTL iron man suit to arrive next year.

It looks like the citation of the Pais patent was added by the examiner, rather than by the applicants. Does that make any difference in your view?

If something is prior art, you need to include it, regardless of the source. Even fictional descriptions of technologies can be prior art. For example, Samsung used 2001 A Space Odyssey as prior art to invalidate Apple's patent on ipad-like tablets.

I wouldn't read too much into this. You have to address prior art when it is found in patent examination as a part of application process, no matter how bogus it is.

Cited patents are added by the examiner. Source: I have several patents.

Source: I have several parents

Ahem :)

Though it may depend on what the patents are for!

Would be pretty funny if this guy actually published a breakthrough that worked all of a sudden

I wonder why more people aren't talking about this

A lot of wishful thinking around these corners

Because it's irrelevant. Patents are supposed to mention other prior patents. Whether those are rubbish or not.

I thought the inclusion of Pais' patents was more along the lines of, here is a patent related to our work, rather than we sourced tech from it.

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