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At 8:45 PM +0100 8/2/01, Phil Angus wrote:
>Dennis Gunn wrote:
>
>>  While I worked in a patent law firm in the 80's I prosecuted and
>>  successfully obtained a patent for an invention that consisted of no
>>  more than a piled stone jetty completely encircling a body of water.
>>
>>  When I first looked at the original patent application I thought it
>>  was the silliest thing I had ever seen.
>>
>>  The strange thing was it did have a legitimate useful function and
>>  was a non obvious method of achieving it so it met the two criteria
>>  needed.  Can you guess what it did?
>--
>
>The World's first well, completely surrounded by water!
>

You are joking but your answer is closer than you think.
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