Schrödinger’s patent paradox

NickSchuneman and John C Williams apply thought experimentprinciples to valid, yet invalid patents

Nick Schuneman and John CWilliams, Baker Botts

Borrowing from a famous (albeit macabre) thought experimentin which the fate of a domesticated cat is surrendered to the whims of quantumphysics, legal scholars have hypothesised the existence of “Schrödinger’spatents”– that is, patents that are simultaneously invalid and valid. ¹