Patent art proves that Siri actually lives inside the iPhone
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Muggle Retail
Working as a sales clerk in a second-rate London bicycle shop, an adult Harry Potter amuses himself by turning coat hangers into bicycles. When his Muggle supervisor returns, wacky antics ensue. Obliviate! Patent art via Context-Free Patent Art. Cross-posted to The Digital Garbage Net.
Patent Humor: A Method of Tilting A Head to Indicate Confusion
See above for illustration accompanying an issued patent for A Method of Tilting A Head to Indicate Confusion. This method is routinely employed and likely infringed by most law students when first confronted with Fed. R. Civ. P. 19(a) and 19(b) regarding Joinder of Required Parties, as amply illustrated by the appropriately numbered illustrations above. Note for example […]
Get out of jail free: how the WWII Allies used the game Monopoly to help POWs escape
Most of us think of Monopoly as a board game. Intellectual Property folk also think of it as a source of IP issues: trademarks in the name, trade dress of the game, copyright, and even patents. But how about this: a POW escape kit? Megan Garber writes in the Atlantic about how the WWII Allies used […]