Patenting: No limits
Cartoons have taughts us: light-bulb over the head- 'bright' idea! But reality has taught me: Bright idea- Patent.
There have been many a times when the brightest idea popped into my head and I just said, "Well, someone should make that". If only I had thought of patenting a few of those ideas, I would have been much wealthier. Well, I was not sure of the richness after seeing one particular patent; I'll come to that shortly.
My cousin Sai and I have come up with some wonderfiul ideas and everytime he exclaims, "hey! we should get this patented!". And truly, he has come up with some wonderful product and process ideas, but sadly neither of us have done anything about it.
A coffee-sleeve...amazing. The floating cup-holder...awesome. The little-plastic thingy at the end of a shoe-lace...perfectly practical. As glad as I am to use these everyday, I do think, "why didn't I come up with this?". One particular patent made me think, "How did someone even think of that?"
I've seen this on AFV, infact so many of them; a cat or a dog going crazy over a laser light pointed at the wall or the floor. Imagine my shock when I saw this. Someone has actually patented this method of excercising a cat.
Excercising it/ tormenting it, but this is the most absurd thing I have ever seen. Has patenting become no-limits?
There have been many a times when the brightest idea popped into my head and I just said, "Well, someone should make that". If only I had thought of patenting a few of those ideas, I would have been much wealthier. Well, I was not sure of the richness after seeing one particular patent; I'll come to that shortly.
My cousin Sai and I have come up with some wonderfiul ideas and everytime he exclaims, "hey! we should get this patented!". And truly, he has come up with some wonderful product and process ideas, but sadly neither of us have done anything about it.
A coffee-sleeve...amazing. The floating cup-holder...awesome. The little-plastic thingy at the end of a shoe-lace...perfectly practical. As glad as I am to use these everyday, I do think, "why didn't I come up with this?". One particular patent made me think, "How did someone even think of that?"
I've seen this on AFV, infact so many of them; a cat or a dog going crazy over a laser light pointed at the wall or the floor. Imagine my shock when I saw this. Someone has actually patented this method of excercising a cat.
Excercising it/ tormenting it, but this is the most absurd thing I have ever seen. Has patenting become no-limits?
3 Comments:
Yup the cat with laser pointer was one of the demos cisco patent lawyer showed us.. It was fun and amusing... Let's patent a 'programmable bumper sticker' :))
On a different note...one wonders: Commerce, innovation and legal systems have existed for ages but why is the patent system so recent. On researching(aka googling) it appears that a patenting system has been in existence for more than 500 years and originatied in England. (http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2002.htm). So the next question was, why did the concept of patenting not exist before that..say in ancient Egypt, China, India etc.(probably many would say this is true even today ;-)). Hmmm....
Well back to some fun...here is a link that brings out the worst. Truly no limits: http://totallyabsurd.com/featuredinvention.htm
- R
I guess at one point we decide to be a spectator; the mere thought of going through all that process, is actually scary.
The root to the movie comments above???
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