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System which can reversibly reproduce itself

Patent 6652285 Issued on November 25, 2003. Estimated Expiration Date: Icon_subject July 5, 2021. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventor

Application

No. 09/831537 filed on 07/05/2001

US Classes:

434/279, Model having helical chain of elements (e.g., DNA model, etc.)434/278Molecular model or display having discrete element representing atom or radical

Examiners

Primary: Banks, Derris H.
Assistant: Fernstrom, Kurt

Attorney, Agent or Firm

International Classes

G09B 23/26 (20060101)
G09B 23/00 (20060101)

Foreign Application Priority Data

1998-11-11 NO

Abstract

It is described a system of independently moving elements with characteristics making them bind reversibly to each other according to certain rules such that they form self-replicating and mutating polymers subject to the general principles of natural selection, and use of the system to simulate the origin of life, for entertainment, decoration, scientific and educational purposes.

Other References

  • Harold J. Morowitz; "A Model of Reproduction"; Amerikan Scientist; 1959; vol. 47, pp. 261-263
  • Derwent's abstract, No P8316 E/45, week 8245, Abstract of SU 896675, Jan. 7, 1982
  • Copy of International Search Report for PCT/NO99/00334
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