raising ships with ping pong balls

H.W.Fluks@kpn.com H.W.Fluks at kpn.com
Wed Jun 19 15:07:42 CEST 2002


Arne:

> So if Barks would have known of this (has he?) he possibly would have
> been able to get the patent for this method to raise sunken ships.

I don't think it works that way. Barks made this "invention" public (without
claiming a patent at the time).
You can't request a patent on public knowledge (even if you made it public
yourself).

--Harry.



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