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Originally Posted by elcreative
I sincerely hope that you're joking... Arthur C. Clarke wrote about them in a magazine (non-fiction) in the late 1940's and couldn't patent the idea at the time because it was an unimplementable...  |
Doh! Dunno why I was thinking Card, prbly cause it is spelled to close to Clark, but I though he did patent it... but it looks like he did not even try:
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Originally Posted by Arthur C Clark
I'm often asked why I didn't try to patent the idea of communications satellites. My answer is always, "A patent is really a license to be sued.
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[src:
http://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/s...arke-19172008]