{"id":250,"date":"2007-01-16T13:06:14","date_gmt":"2007-01-16T20:06:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-01-16T13:07:42","modified_gmt":"2007-01-16T13:07:42","slug":"just_when_you_thought_your_obscure_paten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/2007\/just_when_you_thought_your_obscure_paten\/","title":{"rendered":"Just when you thought your obscure patents were safe in dusty government bookshelves&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"juiz-outdated-message jodpm-top\">Heads up, this content is 19 years old. Please keep its age in mind while reading.<\/div><p>&#8220;Fig 1. is a front elevational view of sunglasses showing my new design.&#8221;<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/patents?id=eIU7AAAAEBAJ\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahdopp.com\/blog\/media\/sunglasses.gif\" width=\"458\" height=\"184\" alt=\"sunglasses\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/center>&#8212; Shigeki Sueyoshi, 1981, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/patents?id=eIU7AAAAEBAJ\">Patent # D258662<\/a>Guess what? Google has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/patents\">Patent Search<\/a>!  It launched sometime last month, and is in beta.  And like most trinket toys that Google leaves scattered around the web, I stumbled upon it by accident. Gotta love the &#8220;more&#8221; link above the regular Google search&#8230;  To me, it seems to have more entertainment value than anything else.  But I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s a godsend to inventors.  A quick news search brought up a few articles that criticized some errors in the system.  I found one myself, actually.  When clicking on the featured patent labeled &#8220;Zipper&#8221; (next to &#8220;Skateboard&#8221; and &#8220;Futuristic Toy Gun&#8221;), I was instead directed to the patent for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/patents?id=fPhnAAAAEBAJ\">Expanding Internal Brake<\/a>, created by Emil Zipper.  But hey, it&#8217;s in beta.The point is, Google&#8217;s neat. And my love-hate relationship to them for dominating the world through the dissemination of useful technology continues.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heads up, this content is 19 years old. Please keep its age in mind while reading.&#8220;Fig 1. is a front elevational view of sunglasses showing my new design.&#8221;&#8212; Shigeki Sueyoshi, 1981, Patent # D258662Guess what? Google has a Patent Search! It launched sometime last month, and is in beta. And like most trinket toys that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}