Young Inventor

The BBC article's pretty inaccurate tbh. It concentrates on the two brooms being able to pick up different sized leaves. This is, in fact, the fourth claim made on the patent application (making it decidedly supplemental). The main claim is to two brooms hinged together.

I also think the BBC has been very nice where they say that his father is 'by chance.. a patents lawyer'. Firstly to use the term 'lawyer' in that sentence, IMHO implies to most people that he is either a solicitor or barrister, when in fact he's a patent attorney (takes far less training). Secondly, as a patent attorney he'll be seeing new inventions all day every day and thus has to be very careful when coming up with inventions of his own that he's not actually just copied the state of the art (of which he will be well versed) - simple way around this is to say that it's your sons invention and then suddenly it's far less suspicious.

You only need to read the patent itself to see that the bulk of claims are to things that a child would not understand to be novel - and thus understand the great level of 'help' he has received.
 
Yea by looks of that he's had loads of help most likely the kid did nothing might aswell have been all his fathers doing.
 
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