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Re:Google accused of stealing balloon network tech behind Pr... by Steko on Friday June 17, 2016 @12:40AM (#11920721)
Edison's light bulbs were also derivative of many other efforts. Being derivative doesn't exclude you from being able to patent something.
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Re:Google accused of stealing balloon network tech behind Pr... by Aloha on Friday June 17, 2016 @01:16AM (#11920814)
Edisons bulb was actually novel, it was novel because it was a high resistance bulb (others were low resistance, so they consumed huge amounts of power), and it had a long life, hundreds of hours instead of tens of hours.
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Re:Google accused of stealing balloon network tech behind Pr... by Steko on Friday June 17, 2016 @04:47AM (#11921370)
Space Data's invention looks more novel to me from what was done with balloons in the 50's than Edison's light bulb from Swan's and others, YMMV.
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