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Originally Posted by axel77
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Just a sitenote. One has not to build a machine prior at all to patent it. You can patent things you are even unable to build (yet). You do not even have to proof something works, it just needs to be original (and not a perptuum mobile, as these get rejected apriori) Only if you don't even assume something might work, you won't bother with the patent fees.
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For a perpetual motion machine, they only reject the patent
a priori if it shows up without a working model. If you provide a working model, you can get the patent! There is, of course, a small problem of implementation there...
Xenophon