From: hal@finney.org
Date: Sun Mar 12 2000 - 23:25:22 MST
Daniel Ust writes:
> Speaking of that... How about patents and copyrights on bad ideas to keep
> them out of circulation?:) Pruning the meme tree? Sounds like an idea for
> science fiction farce....
I recall a famous case of this a decade back, when someone patented a
machine to keep a human head alive. The head would be hooked up to a
heart-lung machine, the blood would go through dialysis, etc. The stated
intention was to make sure this horrible-sounding technology would never
be used (at least not for 17 years).
Unfortunately in my searches of the web and of patent databases I have
not been able to come up with keywords to locate the patent. Does anyone
know the number or name, or any more details?
Hal
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