Don't believe me? Just Google ferrofluid cooling
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=ferrofluid+cooling
About 967,000 results (0.13 seconds)
or ferrofluid heat sink
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=ferrofluid+heat+sink
About 525,000 results (0.15 seconds)
leading to:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Patent+US20070058340+-+Heat+sink+ by Sun Microsystems March 15, 2007
What's new, revolutionary, magical, incredible, awesome about that from Apple?
As usual, good luck when the patent gets validated through a court of law. Merely having a patent isn't sufficient. Except for Apple who has enough chutzpah to patent the obvious, then count on their war chest to
I suppose that is what free-enterprise is all about?
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The great Robert A. Heinlein chose to spend far too many resources fighting patent applications for water beds; which he first introduced in the novel "Beyond This Horizon" in 1942. The Patent Office seemingly only looks at whether a thing has been previously patented, not whether it's actually a novel idea that is not currently in use by professionals or whether it's been detailed in literature. It's a mess; a ponzi scheme that should be torn down.
~ On September 01, 2011, at 3:13 PM, theHedgehog on fool wrote:
Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
~ Alvin Toffler
