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Originally Posted by Old Tele man
Yes. What people don't often realize is that Patents do NOT have to be either FUNCTIONAL or PHYSICALLY realizable...they ONLY have to be FULLY described (verboise), in legalease terms.
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Very true. Pelmear's patent describes a system that, at its very best, would take more power than a normal alternator can deliver to barely rotate the engine. He never built it. Or if he built it, it never delivered useful power.
And the stuff in the description section about cylinder cutoff and running ignition timing at TDC is just noise. The only stuff that legally counts is what's in the claims.
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