On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 04:09, Michael Kay wrote:
> > 1.Is knowingly filing a patent application for which there is
> > prior art 'business'?
>
> If governments are stupid enough to allow you to make money by doing so,
> then yes.
>
An Australian patent attorney was awarded the 2001 Ig-Nobel prize in
Technology for receiving Australian patent 2001100012 for "A Circular
Transportation Facilitation Device."
Note: there is clearly a bunch of Australian Domestic politics, and a
deliberate attempt by said patent attorney to discredit a reform aimed
at reducing patent attorney income, involved. Still, it happened.
Frank
