EVDL Administrator via EV wrote:
Didn't the EV1 have a heat pump system pretty much identical to this? If
so, how can Tesla patent it?
First, you can always get a "design" patent. This is like patenting not
the wheel itself; but your particular design of it (with, for example,
square spokes instead of round spokes).
Second, modern patents are so obscurely worded, and patent examiners are
so far behind that they often only give a cursory glance to what the
patent says. So people can make outrageous claims that are glaringly
obvious, or have already been patented a dozen times, and the patent
examiner never notices.
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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong
reasons. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
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Lee Hart, 814 8th Ave N, Sartell MN 56377, www.sunrise-ev.com
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