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saudade97
·قبل 3 سنوات·discuss
The amount of Tesla apologism in HN is nasueasting. Per the NHTSA, a safety recall is issued if either the manufacturer or the NHTSA determines that a vehicle or its equipment pose a safety risk or do not meet motor vehicle safety standards. On its face, Tesla's situation clearly calls out for classification as a recall.
saudade97
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I don't get the HN hate of Google as a search tool. Yes, SEO has made searching more difficult, but Google is still by far the best search engine provided that your searches are focused and you use search tools (e.g., excluding terms, focusing on certain sites, etc.). I've tried other search engines (e.g., DDG, Bing) and they just aren't as good as Google.
saudade97
·قبل 3 سنوات·discuss
The prosecution is pretty interesting to read through; here's what I saw.

Looking at the Final rejection, the Examiner rejected the claims as lacking enablement given that the specification indicated that ludcriously high teslas—more than what a neutron star generates—need to be generated for the invention to work. (Notably, the Examiner was pretty lazy here and didn't cite anything to bolster his argument. I'm not sure if it would have helped, though.)

In the appeal, the attorney argued that, legally, a patent doesn't have to describe a working invention; this triggered my BS alarms about the invention's overall feasibility. That said, there are some hilariously biting remarks here in which the attorney, addressing repulsive magnetic fields, slanders the Examiner as one who fails to understand highschool physics and not even being close to one of ordinary skill in the art. But from what I saw by skimming, a lot of what the Applicant provided as enablement was the inventor's own previous work and that the high numbers are generated by "valid" equations.

Overall, it looks like this invention is BS, but BS inventions are demonstrably patentable by legal precedent. I'll share a cynical Patent Examiner adage: Stupid gets you patent.