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- "ANIMAL-TRAP" Mousetraps can be so anticlimactic, but this one goes off with a bang. An 1882 patent, the frame is designed to hold your favorite peashooter.
- "FLATULENCE DEODORIZER" Confidently cut the cheese with this 2001 invention, which masks the smell of your personal potpourri. A simple charcoal pad clings to the back of your underpants, stopping the aroma before it reaches your boss' nose.
- "APPARATUS FOR PREVENTING COLLISIONS OF RAILWAY TRAINS" It's like a scarecrow—but for trains. Patented in 1888, J. W. James' invention features an electric dummy riding in front of the train.
- "FRESH-AIR BREATHING DEVICE AND METHOD" Smoke inhalation causes most fire-related deaths. Knowing that, William Holmes found out how to keep you conscious while you wait for rescue—as long as you can handle having toilet breath.
Oct 5, 2009 · Examples of (at least apparently) ridiculous patents and patent applications abound (more at PatentLawPractice): Amazon’s “one-click” patent, asserted against rival Barnes & Noble. Cendant’s assertion that Amazon violated Cendant’s patent monopoly on recommending books to customers (since settled)
Oct 5, 2017 · The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted some pretty ridiculous patents over the years. It makes me wonder about the quality of patents they’re not granting.
- Animal Toy. Look at the picture. The title of this patent is "animal toy," and he says it may be made of "wood" or "wood composites." That's right; the dude is trying to patent the stick.
- User-Operated Amusement Apparatus For Kicking the User's Buttocks. Why, you might ask, would someone want a device designed "for self-infliction of repetitive blows to the user's buttocks"?
- Apparatus For Simulating a "High Five" The Apparatus for Simulating a "High Five" was filed by an inventor named Albert Cohen, in an apparent attempt to make the most depressing device in history.
- Method of Swinging on a Swing. Remember how you used to "pull alternatively on one chain and then the other" while "on a standard swing suspended by two chains from a substantially horizontal tree branch"?
May 7, 2009 · Following on from our Top 15 Truly Bizarre Patents and Another 10 Bizarre (and Stupid) Patents, we have prepared a third list of the weird and whacky that.
Dec 31, 2016 · A full two-thirds of all patent lawsuits filed in the US are filed by patent trolls, who stockpile stupid patents so that they can extort money from other inventors in court for violating their...
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Jan 1, 2016 · From the internet of dildos to having someone else pay the phone bill, trolls filed lot of patently ridiculous patents.
