Re: TRM - Morbidity has set in, or not?

"dawn" <dawnwolthuis_at_gmail.com> wrote in message news:1147803880.921798.302160_at_i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> x wrote:
> > "Frank Hamersley" <terabitemightbe_at_bigpond.com> wrote in message
> > news:qq_9g.4396$S7.3330_at_news-server.bigpond.net.au...
> > > x wrote:
> > > > "J M Davitt" <jdavitt_at_aeneas.net> wrote in message
> > > > news:Z_99g.24008$YI5.23255_at_tornado.ohiordc.rr.com...
> > > >> Marshall Spight wrote:
> > > >>> Frank Hamersley wrote:
> >
> >
> > > My layman's understanding is that patents are about method rather than
> > > outcomes so if the TRM is unique in that regard its patent will stand.
> >
> > How is an invention different from a discovery ?

> In theory, invention is a creative act of the mind, while discovery is
> a scientific or sensory act. It is hard to draw a clean line between
> them, however. Do we invent mathematics or discover it? --dawn

invention [1300-50; ME < L inventio *discovery* = inven (ire) :-)

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in-vent (in vent')  v.t. <-vent-ed, -vent-ing>
                  1.  to originate as a product of one's own
                       ingenuity, experimentation, or
                       contrivance: to invent a better mousetrap.
                  2.  to produce or create with the
                       imagination: to invent a story.
                  3.  to make up or fabricate (something
                       fictitious or false): to invent excuses.
-------->    4.  Archaic. to come upon; find.
             [1425-75; late ME invented (ptp.) discovered < L
             inventus, ptp. of invenire to encounter, come
             upon, find = in- IN -2 + venire to COME]

dis-cov-er (di skuv'uhr)  v.t. <-ered, -er-ing>
                  1.  to gain sight or knowledge of (something
                       previously unseen or unknown).
                  2.  to notice or realize.
    -------> 3.  Archaic. to make known; reveal; disclose.
             [1250-1300; ME < AF discoverir, OF descovrir < LL
             discooperire. See DIS -1, COVER]