The Ouija patent protected the specific arrangement of the letters and the moving indicator as a game device. It had nothing to do with the claim of contacting the deceased. An invention must be capable of working as described and can’t be an abstract concept. You can’t prove the paranormal is behind the functioning, so the paranormal part can’t be given a patent.
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