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Offline calexanianTopic starter

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Old Patent Finds
« on: August 02, 2016, 04:28:24 am »
Here is a patent originally filed in 1906 by General Electric for an "Electrolytic Condenser"

https://www.google.com/patents/US1074231?dq=inassignee:%22general+electric%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjcx4qN8aHOAhVI92MKHZp5Cr4Q6AEIXzAJ

It literally can fit on one page! A modern parent does not even have a vague description of the idea on the first several pages.
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Offline HighVoltage

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Re: Old Patent Finds
« Reply #1 on: August 02, 2016, 06:23:06 am »
Most good patents in those days have been very short and powerful.

After WW2, the USA took about 650,000 patents from Germany as war reparation payment and I read in one report that they looked mainly for very short and powerful patents. It seems these days of short patents are over.
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Re: Old Patent Finds
« Reply #2 on: August 02, 2016, 08:36:22 am »
The patent system, as it is today, is fucked. The whole thing should be abolished I reckon.
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