Famed 18th-century satirist Jonathan Swift was famously quoted as stating, "He was a bold man who first ate an oyster." The same should probably be said about the first pilot who first flew a jet ...
“It seems that the prevailing view, both at the PTO and among some patent attorneys, is that patents on nonexistent and impossible inventions are mere curiosities—unfortunate, but ultimately harmless.
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Does your country have an invention that never made it to the outside world? (35 answers)
Every country has that one invention locals swear by – brilliant, bizarre, or both – that somehow never crossed the border.
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