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Re:Room-Temperature Superconductivity Achieved for the First... by adamiscool8 on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @07:05PM (#24782756)
Is that preposterous? The idea that "spacetime"(?) may have superconductive properties doesn't seem facially outlandish, but again I'm not a fancy scientist. He is an awarded US Navy scientist though, and these patents were specially requested by Navy brass, so I'm not inclined to think he's a scammer that slipped one by his attorneys.
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Re:Room-Temperature Superconductivity Achieved for the First... by ben_w on Thursday October 15, 2020 @10:00AM (#24788728)
I have met someone who got a stupid patent — IIRC it was a two bit binary adder — because the patent lawyer messed up what he sent to them.

He didn’t check before it was filled because he didn’t care (the point of the patent was “we needed a patent protected system to be granted a license to a codec”), and it was granted anyway.

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Re:Room-Temperature Superconductivity Achieved for the First... by dennnis on Thursday October 15, 2020 @01:59PM (#24791605)
If you look up the history of this patent, the first few times it was submitted it was denied, then some US general comments and basically rubber stamps it through.
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