So far we have three people that have made the same comment about not being the front view. I’m using copy comments as TP tomorrow.

  • VådFisk@feddit.dk
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    4 days ago

    Wait. So if this i patented but has no specification about hanging it the other way, would that mean that one could patent toilet paper again, but hanging the other way?

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      3 days ago

      I don’t believe so. They will only award a new patent if yours is meaningfully different from previous technologies. I would suspect they would deem the other direction “not a meaningful difference.”

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      3 days ago

      You shouldn’t, but the patent office don’t care about inventive height and obviousness anymore