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Peter Chamberlen, inventor of the birth forceps, who became accoucheur (male midwife) for patients in need and saved countless lives. Just kidding, he and his family assisted in childbirths of the very rich, keeping their life-saving invention deeply secret for almost two centuries.
Poor women? - they could die giving birth, not the Chamberlens' problem as long as the women had the decency to stay out of sight. And of course, tens of thousands did.
Yes, and I described what they had done to beat the patent and copyright.
Patents are never sound until they have been successfully litigated. I lost a very critiical one 45 years ago because the patent attorney was way too specific. He basically patented the specific implementation and left enough room to drive a truck through by mildly varying the physics involved. It should have been an air tight patent and would have been if I had been the inventor 5 or 10 years later.
Copyright at best protects precise marketing concepts. Of zilch use on inventions.
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