Re:Patent US5443036 – Method of exercising a cat
by chris_wot on Friday October 23, 2015 @07:03AM
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With this post I wanted to show novelty is important in patents. I actually had a wide field to choose from though, for instance I seriously considered the following patents:
- Patent US3480010 - an anti-snore device that consisted of a "neckband [that] contains a microphone, a transistor amplifier, a high voltage-producing transformer, a supply battery, a relay and a pair of spaced electrodes [which] are in contact with the sleepers skin" [1]
- Patent US20130239604 - Promotion of peace, love and understanding through the global proliferation of snowpeople system method and apparatus [2]
- UK patent GB1047735 - "Arrangements for the transfer of fresh water from one location on the earth's surface to another at a different latitude, for the purpose of irrigation, with pumping energy derived from the effect of the earth's rotation about the polar axis" [3], or in layman's terms it was basically a plan to position giantpeashooters in the Antarctic pointed at Australia's deserts which would fire snowballs to irrigate them
- Patent US6368227 - Method of swinging on a swing. Can't add anything to this really, that's precisely the patent that was granted. [4]
- Patent US6025810 - Hyper-light-speed antenna (probably THE most novel of all the patents granted by the U.S. Patent Office, because it specified a transmission method capable of "sending the signal at a speed faster than light.") [5]
- Patent US6612440 - from the abstract: "A banana protective device for storing and transporting a banana carefully." [6]
- Patent US3480010 - an anti-snore device that consisted of a "neckband [that] contains a microphone, a transistor amplifier, a high voltage-producing transformer, a supply battery, a relay and a pair of spaced electrodes [which] are in contact with the sleepers skin" [1]
- Patent US20130239604 - Promotion of peace, love and understanding through the global proliferation of snowpeople system method and apparatus [2]
- UK patent GB1047735 - "Arrangements for the transfer of fresh water from one location on the earth's surface to another at a different latitude, for the purpose of irrigation, with pumping energy derived from the effect of the earth's rotation about the polar axis" [3], or in layman's terms it was basically a plan to position giantpeashooters in the Antarctic pointed at Australia's deserts which would fire snowballs to irrigate them
- Patent US6368227 - Method of swinging on a swing. Can't add anything to this really, that's precisely the patent that was granted. [4]
- Patent US6025810 - Hyper-light-speed antenna (probably THE most novel of all the patents granted by the U.S. Patent Office, because it specified a transmission method capable of "sending the signal at a speed faster than light.") [5]
- Patent US6612440 - from the abstract: "A banana protective device for storing and transporting a banana carefully." [6]
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References:
1. http://www.google.com/patents/US3480010
2. http://www.google.com/patents/US20130239604
3. http://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?CC=...
4. http://www.google.com/patents/US6368227
5. http://www.google.com/patents/US6025810
6. http://www.google.com/patents/US6612440