Gee whizzy Rolf.....I'm not sure that's a "good list" at all.
1. The four minute mile was broken in May 1954 in England by Roger Bannister, 2 months before the 1954 Empire Games in Vancouver Canada.
1a. Reports of it also being broken in May 1770 in London by James Parrott. Accepted...
Statement :
An invention is patentable regardless of how many people it has been "shown" to. And filing initial patent applications in most jurisdictions is actually very cheap - you just have to follow up (usually) within a year with the real deal to maintain your protection but by then he...
As a dragon might say ;
"I don't believe in the product, I don't believe in you, your pitch was one of the worst I've seen, and it is for these reasons that I cannot invest, so I'm out."
However, one couldn't possibly comment.