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analog31
450 days ago
If it can't be reduced to practice, then it's a vanity patent, but also, impossible to violate.
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bdowling
450 days ago
A patent application is a constructive reduction to practice. MPEP 2138.05.
https://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/s2138.html#:~:tex...
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analog31
449 days ago
Indeed, but a constructive reduction to practice means that the inventor still has to describe how it can be done. And if it's impossible, then it's not a reduction to practice, just an invalid patent.
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