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"Everything that can be invented has been invented."

January 1, 1970

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Quoted in (See also, Ecclesiastes 1:9 "What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.") Anecdotally misattributed to Charles H. Duell, Commisioner, US Patent Office, 1899, see "A Patently False Patent Myth by Samuel Sass in Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. 13 (Spring 1989), pg. 310-313.

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Quoted in (See also, Ecclesiastes 1:9 "What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.") Anecdotally misattributed to Charles H. Duell, Commisioner, US Patent Office, 1899, see "A Patently False Patent Myth by Samuel Sass in Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. 13 (Spring 1989), pg. 310-313.