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-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Patents] imagine... Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 09:18:15 +0100 From: Erik Josefsson erikjosefsson@telia.com To: patents@aful.org
Just an unimplementable idea?
Imagine we would have 25 MEPs gathered to listen to one speaker, assisted by one or two computer professionals (really fast guys). Then take 7 minutes of speaking time to ask the MEPs to invent something, simply by asking them (holding up a portable computer) "What would you like this machine to do?" Then you would get at least 10 suggestions. During the talk the hackers would pick one of the ideas and implement it. Their work should be displayed on a screen on the side as it progresses.
When the talk is finished, the implementation is presented and simple questions asked like if there already exists EPO-patents covering this and how many questions to nature the hackers put when hacking.
//Erik