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Oct 5, 2017 · The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted some pretty ridiculous patents over the years. ... USPTO saw fit to grant Apple’s design patent for a glass staircase in 2013. 2.
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Dec 31, 2016 · The 11 Stupidest Patents of 2016. By Daniel Oberhaus. December 31, 2016, 11:00am. Last year, the US Patent and Trademark Office saw nearly 630,000 patent applications come through its doors ...
- Hypodermic Bunny. Kids need to be properly immunized before starting school. But no kids like getting shots. Make the process easier with this (totally not at all terrifying) bunny-shaped syringe, patented in 1967.
- Concussion Alarm Clock. If a regular alarm just doesn’t rouse you in time, how about this 1882 patented “device for waking persons from sleep?” It consists of a frame suspended above the head of a bed.
- A Better Cereal Bowl. What better way to start your school day than with a big bowl of crispy corn flakes or Cheerios? And what worse way to start it than with a bowl of soggy mush?
- In-the-Car Coffee Maker. This one’s for the parents. Pep up the carpool drive with a cup of joe brewed right in your vehicle, “without taking attention from the road.”
Dec 27, 2017 · The issuance fee creates an obvious potential conflict of interest for patent office administrators. When money is tight, the USPTO has an incentive to grant more patents to get more issuance fees.
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Oct 19, 2017 · "There's also a patent for the "comb-over"," one person reminded me today. This too we mentioned here a very long time ago. From the article at “Above the Law”: 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.
The world is filled with wannabe inventors. People looking to get rich simply by filing an endless number of funny patents. It’s the inventor version of buying a lottery ticket, and apparently the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office seems to have no standards whatsoever. And for that, humanity can only thank them.
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Oct 7, 2024 · Discover some of the most innovative of the 6.5 million patents that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted since Thomas Jefferson issued the first one in 1790. Updated and reformatted from the original 2004 edition, Ingenious Patents presents each device along with background about the inventor, interesting sidebars and history, and an excerpt from the original patent application.
