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Microsoft Emotiflag Patent Microsoft managed to land a patent grant for emotiflags this past week despite well-known prior usage.  The IP team member at Microsoft who received the Notice of Allowance...

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Fun Patent of the Day

Posted on : 28-09-2007 | By : Sarah | In : Legal Stuff

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Q: An inventor, a patent examiner, and a patent attorney . . . oh why bother, its the patent attorney. Click on the link below and scroll down to read Claim 9.

US Patent App 2004/0161257

One Bad Duck Can Spoil the Baboons

Posted on : 24-09-2007 | By : Sarah | In : News

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Recently, on a favorite blog of ours, the questionable moral nature of a duck was displayed. View duck crime here

Apparently, the baboons who viewed what the duck could get away with have taken crime one step farther. As peer pressure rises, we urge you to take precautions against the rest of the animal kingdom (whatever that might mean).

Read about baboon crime here

Breathe In, Wake Up.

Posted on : 21-09-2007 | By : Sarah | In : Legal Stuff

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Finally! An invention I’ve been waiting for – found at last!

Delivery of Caffeine Through an Inhalation Route
patent#: US 707801

There’s nothing quite like the smell of coffee in the morning, but let’s face it – we don’t drink it for the flavor, we drink it for the caffeine. So why wait for coffee to brew when we can just snort the caffeine directly into our addicted little nostrils? I want to be caffeinated, and I want to be caffeinated NOW!

If you’ve ever worked in an office building, you’ve probably noticed how corporations are more that happy to provide their employees with free coffee, tea, cola beverages, etc. – anything with a healthy dose of stimulating jitter juice. This invention puts caffeine into an aerosol. So, productivity manager, why waste valuable office space on a kitchen, when you can just pipe the stuff directly into the climate control system?

Thanks to Daniel Wright of www.patentlysilly.com for bringing this to our attention.

Man Sues God

Posted on : 21-09-2007 | By : Sarah | In : Legal Stuff, News

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A Nebraska State Senator has sued God, blaming God for terrorist attacks and seeking an injunction against God for future threats. The defendant (that would be God) filed his response yesterday with a bolt of lightning . . . okay, no actual lightning was reported. But a response was found on the county clerk’s desk, signed by God himself! And get this – apparently God resides in Corpus Christi, TX! I knew Texas was the promised land, but of all the cities . . . really God?

To read about the lawsuit click here

To learn more about God’s response click here

Tour de Scandal

Posted on : 20-09-2007 | By : Sarah | In : News

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The verdict is in – 2006 Tour de France champion Floyd Landis must forfeit his title due to the arbitration decision upholding the doping charges against him. Unless he wins on appeal, Landis will be the first in the history of the race to lose his title based on doping allegations. Interestingly, former champion Greg LeMonde testified against Landis during the hearings.

For the full story click here