Small and trivial things in themselves but killers in the longer term.
"There's all sorts of things, and they can be quite trivial things but they can be quite serious as well, and they can certainly affect the real world, " the Sunday Times quotes Mr Hilton as saying.
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It is impossible to say with certainty how bad the 21st century's heating will be, but there is a large chance of it getting hot enough to do harm, and a far from trivial chance of things turning catastrophic.
The second problem is that as you will see reading through the comments to the various pages linked above, the actual thing that has been patented is both trivial and obvious: and patents are not supposed to be granted for things that are either trivial or obvious.
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This might seem like a trivial question, but for two things.
Back to patents only for things which are non-trivial, non-obvious and new and unique please.
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The point about patents is that they are supposed to be for things that are non-trivial and non-obvious.
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Early Day Motions in the UK Parliament can be used for many things, some of them trivial, but many of them taking on board serious subjects.
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This is a trivial example of course: but the same basic principle pervades all new technologies and ways of doing things.
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