[BC] Franklin Antenna - KTTO (ex-KREM)]

[RichardBJohnson at comcast.net]

Of course it's full or prior art! You wouldn't invent a buggy-whip
before you had a horse-drawn buggy --ask Rich from Whip-City!

Most patents are granted for improvements of existing things.
They have to be non-obvious to those "skilled in the art," but
that's a big problem to observe many years after you've been
using more modern devices. Everything seems obvious to us!!!

Try to put your perspective back in the days before Franklin
invented the variable capacitor --back with glass-plate and
tinfoil capacitors with variometers for tuning because there
was "no possible way to make a variable capacitor," and
"we don't need them anyway because we have variable
inductors...."

Suppose I invented a method of charging one of those
new electric cars that everybody is promising. You just
drive it home and park it in your driveway or garage.
You don't have to plug it in. Would you deny a patent
because it used a transformer --and transformers
are prior art? 


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Cheers,
Richard B. Johnson
Read about my book
http://www.LymanSchool.org


 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Dana  Puopolo" <dpuopolo at usa.net>
> Yet another example of the Patent Office's pure incompetance! This patent
> should have NEVER been granted! It's FULL of prior art.
> 
> -D
> 
>