"Jeff Wisnia" wrote in message

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I asked myself why anyone on earth would waste their money preparing and
filing a patent application for something that anyone with an
engineering or science education would immediately realize couldn't ever
be made to work.

My best guess is that the "inventor" got hooked in by a greedy "patent
assistant."

Or maybe even by a firm like the one George Forman is pushing on radio
and TV ads lately:

http://www.ispot.tv/ad/7DF7/inventhe...george-foreman

Jeff

I suspect you're right. Shows like "Shark Tank" also feed on the "become
rich through invention" scams that seem to have cropped up like mushrooms
after a spring rain.

--
Bobby G.