Donald Duck: Patent Foiler

[Nuno J. Silva]

August Yang <wintermute at speakeasy.net> writes:

> http://www.iusmentis.com/patents/priorart/donaldduck/
>
> Apparently, someone figured out a way to raise sunken ships using
> "smaller, more buoyant bodies" and was awarded patents in 1965 in the
> UK and Germany.  They tried to get a Dutch patent as well, but the
> Dutch refused the patent because there was "prior art": a 1945 Carl
> Barks Donald Duck story.

In this case, I suppose any science-fiction story which happened to use
and describe that method would fit as prior art. It is fun, thanks for
sharing!

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Nuno J. Silva
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