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γελοία διπλώματα ευρεσιτεχνίας

Μη αναγνωσμένη δημοσίευση από Antipnevma » 24 Μάιος 2023, 13:47

Δείτε εδώ γελοίες πατέντες https://www.eff.org/issues/stupid-patent-month

Ακολουθεί απόσπασμα από το καινούργιο βιβλίο του ανεπανάληπτου Vaclav Smil Invention and Innovation - A Brief History of Hype

The notion of ever-faster innovation ranks high among the incessantly recited mantras of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Obviously, a rising number of patents is not a perfect measure of this innovative acceleration (too many patents protect minor variations and marginal improvements on influential discoveries), but it is undeniable that the decadal aggregates of applications granted by the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), including grants to foreign residents, increased from just 911 during the first decade of the nineteenth century to nearly 250,000 during the 1890s, and then went from about 340,000 during the first decade of the twentieth century to about 1,653,000 during the 1990s, a nearly 2,000-fold increase in two hundred years. Of course, this simple, unqualified, and in some ways obviously misleading ascent of the total number of patents has always included dubious entries and even some truly mad creations. In 1932 Alford Brown and Harry Jeffcot put together a small collection of such cases from the files of the USPTO. One must wonder what possessed professional patent evaluators to grant protection to such items as an “improved burial-case” (whereby a person can “on recovery to consciousness, ascend from the grave and the coffin by the ladder”) or a “device for producing dimples.” If you think that we have left such frivolities behind, checking regularly the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s web page “Stupid Patent of the Month” will make it clear that there is no shortage of such idiocies. I would single out US patent 8,609,158B2, granted in 2013, and a lengthy quotation is necessary to make it clear how dubious the patenting process remains. The patent granted to a single inventor, Diane Elizabeth Brooks, is for Diane’s manna

a potent drug with narcotic benefits made from distinctly and uniquely com-
bined and processed interchangeable seed and seed derivatives that are so potent
that it removes or alleviates depression, mood disorders, Attention Disorder
symptoms, thought disorder, mental illness, pain, right lip retardation symptoms,
physical problems, Lymph Node cancer and many other illness symptoms.
It removes bumps in the neck within a week or two. It is interchangeable
in most aspects. . . . It is extremely strong or potent and can be made weak to
make your little Attention deficit child normal. It is an incredible mood stabilizer
and reduces psychosis. Use it for cancer patients and for people with pain
issues. It works.

It boggles the mind that this claim was actually approved, but there are also many thoroughly factual grants that are still in the shake-your-head
category, among them US patent D670,286S1 granted in 2012 to Apple (there were ten applicants, including Steve Jobs and the company’s chief
designer, Jonathan Ive) for a “portable display device,” that is, for a rectangle with rounded corners (fig. 1.2). I cannot resist citing yet another
American patent application by Susan R. Harsh for “a kit and method that converts dog nose smudges deposited on a first surface into a form
of dog nose art on a second surface.” Remarkably, this one has yet to be granted

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