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Comment by Alupis

Seems rather sad state of our Patent system here in the US where a 19 year old with no prior technical background, who was a Chemical Engineering student, a sophomore no less (meaning barely finished or finishing General Ed. requirements and just starting Major courses), can write and file for a highly-technical patent involving radios, sensors, embedded devices, and the like.

> And we could put a cellphone chip on it, and it could telemeter out to the doctor or the patient what was going on.

It's very doubtful she understood how any of that works, or would work in her product/patent.

Underlying story seems it's absurd this was patent-able.

parent Alupis 12 years ago

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