moving something from one product sector to another counts as innovation
that's all Dyson did - yet he has full protection for it
tim
moving something from one product sector to another counts as innovation
that's all Dyson did - yet he has full protection for it
tim
Really how come Vax and others also sell cyclone cleaners, plenty on ebay anyway, they even lok very similar.
If I was dyson I'd take them to the cleaners over it.
I've no idea, perhaps they pay the license fee
Dyson did take a violation of his patent to court - and won
tim
It was said by someone wanting to curry public acceptance for nuclear power.
NT
I don't know the legal situation but the Vax is a very different design to the Dysons, even if both are cyclonic.
NT
As I said. Written by an idiot.
I've no doubt he has lots and lots of patents. But like most, there are ways round them.
Don't remember there being much resistance to it at the time.
Which I always found odd, as industrial cyclones were used for dust separation decades before he patented the idea. While it hadn't been applied to household vacuums before, it was hardly new technology or novel application warranting a patent.
His ball-barrow on the other-hand was a good idea, spreading the load much more as it sinks a little and so reducing the chances of bogging down and also reducing the chances of toppling while cornering. However, I assume that either cost or difficulties on rough ground work against it, as the patent has long expired and yet no-one is producing them any more.
SteveW
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There wasn't in the 50s. The greens arrived later and sabotaged the whole project.
Rubbish. It was said by a Yank general about *fusion*, which did not and does not exist yet as a viable power source on Earth. He imagined that uranium would be expensive and that as deuterium for fusion can be extracted from seawater, fusion as a power source (only 20 years away in the future when he spoke in the 50s) would therefore be cheap.
Think you'll find it managed to do that all by itself.
But also repeated in the UK by the likes of the then current PM. About fission. And that's the one most likely remembered here.
the point of issue was:
"can a technology historically used in one product be patented for use in a different product"
and my answer was to show that the answer is yes (sometimes)
tim
you need to take that up with the court involved
tiom
I think apple patented rounded cornmers in windows or something
Windows ! how dare you, it was the much more important shape of the button icons on phones and later tablets, it just wouldn't be the same with square sharp angled corners. It's like claiming the Earth is cube shaped.
Energy for 3,500,000,000 years! (Something like the half life for uranium. Too bad commercial electricity generation doesn't work by radioactive decay.)
Irrelavent.
I think that's the half-life of U238, not U235 (which fissions). You might look up the Oklo fossil reactor in Winky, too.
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