Unicorns are real..there is a patent for making them

[smudgeoffudge]

http://www.sideshowworld.com/interview-OZ.html

Ok, I found this very interesting. This man actually made "unicorns" and has a patent for doing it. I don't think he has made any more recently.

Basically I think it involves getting one horn to grow in the middle of a goat's forehead. The two horns fuse into one, it seems.

I think they are very interesting and cute looking animals!
Still, they are angora goats and nothing magical, but hey, I want one!

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[Tsukasahminaki]

wow! omg thats so cool

[smudgeoffudge]

Ok, so say someone discovered that a goats horn buds are not fused to the skull for a while. And say that person fiddled around with either removing one of the buds, and moving the other to the middle of the forehead, or somehow moving both buds to the middle so they'd fuse into one...

and did this to produce a unicorn but only for a pet and not for commercial purposes...

would a person still be in violation of his patent?

It seems like he has a patent on making these, but I don't see what is to really stop anyone from fiddling around and making their own, if they understand the concept.



I mean, It would be one thing to make them to sell and another to make them just to have one, and not charge anyone any money if they wanted to see it.

It really doesn't sound hard to do, but of course, a person would want to do it right, and not harm the goat, and that would probably not be easy to do without some knowledge in goat anatomy and some veterinary skills. Still, I figure a veterinarian or someone could probably figure this out.



But if someone just fiddled around on their own without the patent as a guide and they discovered how he did it, I wonder if it would be legal.

He hasn't made one since like..the 1980's and I say someone should be able to do it if he isn't doing it.

I am not sure what anyone would be able to do if someone started making their own.

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[Lee]

Tehe it's a goat! But never less, cool.

[Tsukasahminaki]

do you mean "patent" not "patient" ?


sorry i dont get what you mean by the word "patient"


whos patient? are they at the doctor? what?

[smudgeoffudge]

LOL spelling grammar fail!

[Asthaloth]

The patent would only apply if you were seeking to make commercial gain from it, I think.
That, and patents run out if they go unused, although I dunno how long it is.

[3lla]

wow a unicorn.

i think what freaked me out was all the people dressed up with it.........@_@

[Ammer]

That's beyond creepy.

It's a goat with a big horn -- not a unicorn whatsoever. It's just creepy.

[ahoteinrun]

That's beyond creepy.

It's a goat with a big horn -- not a unicorn whatsoever. It's just creepy.

Frankly traditional european tapestry unicorns look far more goat like then horse like IMO. But oh well.

[Ammer]

That's beyond creepy.

It's a goat with a big horn -- not a unicorn whatsoever. It's just creepy.

Frankly traditional european tapestry unicorns look far more goat like then horse like IMO. But oh well.

Well, if it's not modeled after the unicorn in "The Last Unicorn", than it isn't one to me!

[ahoteinrun]

That's beyond creepy.

It's a goat with a big horn -- not a unicorn whatsoever. It's just creepy.

Frankly traditional european tapestry unicorns look far more goat like then horse like IMO. But oh well.

Well, if it's not modeled after the unicorn in "The Last Unicorn", than it isn't one to me!

Which to me has always been more deer like then horse like. I love that movie but really horse it isn't!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxoJLJx- ... re=related

But for good measure... mmm goodness. I love America (The band) And their wonderful songs for this movie. Classical animation makes me giddy.

[Mongrel]

Unicorns do have a lot more in common with goats than horses. A lot of them are bearded, they're almost always white, and they often seem to be smaller and more delicately built than horses. Plus, goats have horns to begin with.

[zorg]

But if someone just fiddled around on their own without the patent as a guide and they discovered how he did it, I wonder if it would be legal.

He hasn't made one since like..the 1980's and I say someone should be able to do it if he isn't doing it.

I am not sure what anyone would be able to do if someone started making their own.

Patents are there for a reason Even if he hasn't made one in 27 years, he still has the patent. Whilst you wouldn't get in trouble for making one on your own, you wouldn't be allowed to sell it or commercialise it. even if you had no idea this patent existed. If I made a phone independent of seeing a phone before, knowing one existed, I wouldn't be allowed to sell that phone without paying Alexander Bell right? (well, his patent has probly expired, but you get the idea).

So yeah, no free unicorns for atleast 25 years (I think patents normally expire after 50 years (ish)). CocaCola recipie is still patent, and thats been along time. Not sure how it works.

[Mongrel]

Zorg, Wikipedia says: "It is common in the United States for inventors to assign their ownership rights to a corporate entity." It also says that there are maintenance fees due on patents, yearly in most countries, but on some bizarre schedule in the US. I know copyrights last until fifty years after the person's death, but I'm not sure when patents end. It's probably whenever the maintenance fees are no longer paid or something. So a corporation could keep a patent indefinitely, but a patent would probably end after the owner of the patent A) died and the payments lapsed or B) stopped paying maintenance fees in his/her lifetime.