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Originally Posted by JRMichler
Quack alert! Once a patent application is filed, the inventor can say anything to anybody without jeopardizing the application. Patent applications MUST be filed before selling, or even offering for sale. After an invention is sold, or publicly disclosed, it is no longer patentable.
Anybody can apply for a patent, but they can only be granted for new inventions. I would really like to know just what (the inventor thinks) is patentable about snake oil.
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But, but, but dear patent office, it's a really rare snake, a unicorall snake.
regards
Mech