1. the official legal exclusive right to make or sell an invention for a set period of time 2. easily recognizable; obvious 3. open and unobstructed; failing to close; exposed; typically used in the medical context to describe a vessel, duct, or aperture Note: originates from the Latin patere, which means 'to lay open'
WE’VE BEEN HERE BEFORE
@priorartdaily.bsky.social
Even START had a barcode.
Lowell Carpenter's 1982 microwave patent proposed scanning a food package for cooking instructions, then scanning START on the oven.
You already rang up dinner. Now ring it up again.
Patent & drawings: USPTO
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Council for Innovation Promotion
@council4ip.bsky.social
❌ Myth: The Patent Eligibility Restoration Act "would bring the worst patents back into the system."
✅ Fact: The #bill would not alter any of the Patent Act provisions designed to preclude old, unfounded, or "bad" #patents from being issued.
For more #PERA myths and facts:
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Frank A. Spring
@frankaspring.bsky.social
man if you’re gonna sell patent medicines on the tv have the decency not to pretend they’re a special gum or some shit. do it right: sell us a 10oz bottle of Hokemeyer‘s Tonic For Rectifying The Humors that’s 65% flavored water and the rest is grain alcohol and laudanum
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