Did that feel good, Laz?
Just the facts, ma'am. :-)
Perpetual motion: Extensive research would most likely be required of tomes of dry legalese. My understanding is that the ISPTO will not consider such claims because they violate the laws of physics as currently known. HOWEVER, were someone to invent such, that embargo would be useless. Just patent it in a country that has no such prohibition and the US would be required to recognize the intellectual property there and you're in business. Plus they would have to revise their rules.
THis claims to be the USPTO position:
The views of the Patent Office are in accord with those scientists who have investigated the subject and are to the effect that such devices are physical impossibilities. The position of the Office can only be rebutted by a working model. ... The Office hesitates to accept fees from applicants who believe they have discovered Perpetual Motion, and deems it only fair to give such applicants a word of warning that fees cannot be recovered after the case has been considered by the Examiner.
chem.unsw.edu.au
So they will look, but you pay.
OTOH,
Or maybe not. Consider patent No. 6,362,718 for a " Motionless Electromagnetic Generator," granted in March of this year. The invention provides " a magnetic generator [in] which a need for an external power source during operation is eliminated." That is to say, once you start it up with a battery, it will keep on running and outputting power long after the battery is disconnected. Limitless power for next to nothing!
sciam.com
Or
Perpetual motion is literally something for nothing... a machine that, once started, never stops: the possiblities would be endless! So far, however, the only people profiting from the idea are the con-men selling it. Perpetual motion per se has never worked; in fact, the idea is now so notorious that the U.S. patents office refuses to even look at so-called 'perpetual motion' mechanisms. No problem: the inventors renamed the idea 'Free Energy', and proceeded to patent their machines anyway.
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