>In the US the patent office only checks that your patent is well
>written.  They make no judgements of what you are patenting, only that
>you use good grammar to describe it.  I worked on a patent once where we
>made a few corrections the examiner wanted, then he said "Since I don't
>understand the rest of this I'll assume it is fine."!

Oh, great! Just a sec to grab my perpetuum mobile plans and I'll hop over.
Didn't A. Einstein work for a patent office ? Oh, it was the *Swiss*
patent office <duck>

Peter

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