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Google patent sticks pedestrians to the car bonnet (news.com.au)
1 point by jonbaer on May 19, 2016 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


I know innovation is driven along faster if you can patent things but I still have an uneasy feeling about a competitive advantage to saving lives. I mean did sally struthers really miss a great opportunity. She could have patented showing starving things on TV and got so good licensing money from those starving puppy commercials.


They cannot do it. Prior art exists, see "Naked gun 33 1/3".




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