uspto

I receive a mostly daily e-mail newsletter about patenting issues in the US, put out by a fellow named Gregory Aharonian. He's got a bit of a bee in his bonnet about management issues at the US. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Some of his complaints are valid, while others are hobby-horses...

Reading SWIFT got me thinking about perpetual motion machines. If you could actually create a machine that outputs >100% of it's input, what would stop you from feeding the output back to the input and creating infinite energy instantly? The entire universe would be destroyed! I wonder if...