Saturday, June 09, 2012

Internet and More Invented 1934 by Lawyer Paul Otlet, Belgian Entrepreneur and Bibliographer

A "Televised Book", in 1934?

The video below is an absolute must for anyone involved in making policies and laws in the patent field, or adjudicating patents.

Why have we created legally enforced totally absurd patent monopolies for ideas and inventions on paper already thrown into the public domain nearly 80 years ago?

More grist for the mill regarding prior art and the obviousness of many erroneously granted modern patents is this article at the Huffington Post by Sean Captain, TechNewsDaily Managing Editor via LiveScience:

Did Paul Otlet [Lawyer] Invent The Internet In 1934? (VIDEO).



See also Paul Otlet at the Wikipedia.