¶ Invention
Index Entry
Invention:
"One cannot patent geometry per se nor any separate, differentiated-out, pure principle of nature’s operative processes. One can patent, however, the surprise complex behaviors of associated principles, where the behavior of the whole is unpredicted by the behavior of the parts, that is, synergetic phenomena. The latter is what is known as an invention, a complex arrangement not found in nature, though sometimes superficially similar to nature.
“Though superficially similar in patternings to radiolaria and flies’ eyes, geodesic structuring is true invention. The radiolaria collapse when taken out of water. Flies eyes will not provide structural precedent or man-occupiable structures.”
