Germany has declined to patent a cyanide-equipped RFID chip developed in Saudi Arabia.

[Are_grits_groceries]

A Saudi Arabian inventor has filed for a patent on a potentially lethal science fiction-style human tracking microchip, the German Patent and Trademark Office (DPMA) told The Local on Friday.

But the macabre innovation that enables remote killing will likely be denied copyright protection.

“While the application is still pending further paperwork on his part, the invention will probably be found to violate paragraph two of the German Patent Law – which does not allow inventions that transgress public order or good morals,” spokeswoman Stephanie Krüger told The Local from Munich.

The patent application – entitled “Implantation of electronic chips in the human body for the purposes of determining its geographical location” – was filed on October 30, 2007, but was only published until last week, or 18 months after submission as required by German law, she said.
Monday, Germany declined the patent application.

But the device, naturally, still exists.


http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/05/germany-denies-most-evil-patent-ever/

Yeesh!!

[armyowalgreens]

1. What the fuck...

[ForrestGump]

2. Nothing thick foil can't foil (perhaps)

Also, inevitably, nothing that can't be signal-cloned, at some point. Easy way to take out someone you really don't like who's been fitted with one of these.

I'm not really into body modification, anyway.

[Vickers]

3. What possible good could that be for?

:wtf:

I mean, seriously, didn't anybody watch Termator?

[leveymg]

4. Some creep cribbed this idea from "Escape From New York"

Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell)? Remember him? Had to rescue the President (Donald Pleasance) or the ticking microchip time bomb in Snake's neck would go off?

[old mark]

5. Wonder if anyone offered this to our government in the previous

administration? They could have made a fortune....


mark

[Echo In Light]

6. Wouldn't surprise me if the various spooks already have similar devices