Patentsomnia
The podcast reading issued patents and published patent applications to help you drift off to inventive dreams. Your host is Charlotte Rodeen-Dickert, Esq., a Registered Patent Attorney of over 20 years, who happens to have a very nice voice. If there is an art area that you would like to hear about to put you to sleep, please visit my Facebook page here.
Episodes
Congratulations to all the graduates out there! Best wishes and success as you go forth into the world. This week, we’re looking at 19th Century patents in the field of finance. (Let me know if you figure out the last one; it's...interesting...)
US 458,400 REGISTERING MONEY BOX US 555,230 FINANCIAL INSTRUMENT FOR USE OF BANKERS &C. US 571,613 DEVICE FOR DEMONSTRATING FINANCIAL PROBLEMS
This week we’re looking at body piercing technology, from a medical piercing device of the 1950s to an interesting 21st Century use for facial piercings.
The second one is especially full of repetition, so is very boring to put you to sleep…until you think about what the actual invention is. (Get through this one and this episode title will all make sense.)
For a preview of a later episode, check out the WIPO (World Intellectual Prop...
America’s Favorite Pastime in the 1800s led to several patents for baseball gear and related items. Tonight’s selections focus on three patents directed to game simulations, either to bring the thrill of a game at home or to fans following a game at a distance. Play ball!
US No. 540,197 GAME BOARD
US No. 292,709 CHECKER AND BASE BALL COMBINATION GAME
US No. 543,851 BASE BALL GAME ILLUSTRATING APPARATUS
“Tactical to Practical” – when technologies perhaps originally developed for military use make their way into common civilian life. Continuing from last week, we have the second of two such inventions, each by a brilliant woman who was a trailblazer in her field, as well as an inductee of the Inventors Hall of Fame (www.invent.org). To learn more, www.patents.google.com
US No. 2,220,860 FILM STRUCTURE AND METHOD OF PREPARATION
“Tactical to Practical” – when technologies perhaps originally developed for military use make their way into common civilian life. Tonight we have the first in a series of two such inventions, each by a brilliant woman who was a trailblazer in her field, as well as an inductee into the Inventors Hall of Fame (www.invent.org).
To learn more, www.patents.google.com
Part 1: US No. 2,220,860 FILM STRUCTURE AND METHOD OF PREPARATION
Continuing from last week, we have another 80’s icon/inventor: Paula Abdul! Note that this one is a published patent application, but not an issued patent. It looks like it was abandoned for failure to respond to an Office Action. However, patent applications are published after 18 months, so we can still enjoy it.
For more info:
US Application No. 20090196451A1 DYNAMIC MICROPHONE SUPPORT APPARATUS
Check o...
So what else to Eddie Van Halen and Michael Jackson have in common?
Both of them invented devices related to their signature performance elements and were granted patents for their innovations.
If you'd like to learn more:
US No. 4,656,917 MUSICAL INSTRUMENT SUPPORT
Eddie Van Halen's guitar "tapping technique"
“Eruption” clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-H2laU7sQU
US No. 5,255,452 METHOD AND MEANS FOR CREA...
Good evening. Tonight we'll be listening to a few brilliant innovations in the art area of Basketball Equipment:
US No. 1,187,029 BASKET BALL AND SIMILAR PLAYING BALL
US No. 1,757,350 BASKET BALL BASKET SUSPENSION
US No. 2,413,952 ELECTRIC RECORDING OF BASKETBALL GOALS
If you would like to read these for yourself or see the accompanying drawings, you can look them up on Google Patent Search: https://patents.google.com/
Tonight we'll read a set of patents from the late 1800s-early 1900s in the art area of Beds. If you'd like to see the drawings or read them for yourself, go to https://patents.google.com/ and enter the number. Tonight's are as follows:
US No. 665,243 MEDICAL BED
US No. 559,778 BED LOUNGE
US 584,699STUDIO FOLDING BED
Good night and good sleep...
Good Evening, and welcome to Patentsomnia, a podcast that helps put you to sleep with the soothing voice of a Patent Attorney reading actual issued patents from the last 200 years.
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