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Yeah, I wonder if anyone has patented human teleportation...



Don't patents only have a 20 year lifespan? If you patent human teleportation, and nobody actually develops it in the 20 year life of your patent (a prediction which is highly likely to be true), then you've simply wasted your filing fees, made a charitable donation to the patent office (and your patent attorney).


Again, "teleportation" would be a "speculative" patent (you have thought about the concept but didn't present anything that works). Have thought and (re-)written again and again about it, but it's too complicated for me to express => I'm temporarily defeated, sorry folks :) - still love all your posts :) . Pls. don't give up :) .




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