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Well, hard to believe, that in the 10+ years of operation, the HalfBakery is getting serious attention from the U.S. Patent Office. Perhaps we should change the name to 75-percent-baked -- 'cause now the Halfbakery is cited in seven granted patent applications this August 2009. While the custard filled
speed bumps have not been cited once (hard to believe) there seems to be sufficiently enabled ideas here to surmount the 'joke' barrier and ascend into seriousness.
I think the HalfBakery should sponsor a contest to give to the halfbaker who gets the zaniest idea cited at the U.S. PTO a small trophy of a gilded crescent at the time the USPTO cites (in a granted patent) the 12th Halfbakery reference. One way to spur this on, is for people to submit Halfbakery idea citations to peertopatent.org ...
I'd love to be a fly-on-the-wall in the patent attorney's office who gets a rejection from the patent office that cites a Halfbakery idea as teaching an obvious part of the attorney's invention. "You can't be serious, the Halfbakery is knocking out my invention?"
Patent Office Spectacular Seven
http://patft.uspto....RM2=&FIELD2=&d=PTXT
This patents were granted in spite of the Halfbakery [pathetic, Aug 12 2009]
Peer to Patent
http://Peertopatent.org
Crowdsourced patent prior art searching [pathetic, Aug 12 2009]
Halfbakery inspired Art?
http://web.media.mi...dsm/ass1/sketch.jpg
A sketch of the commentary flow on the custard speed bump idea [Zimmy, Aug 13 2009]
[link]
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call me a cynic, but I don't think being cited 7 times (out of how many tens of thousands of ideas?) is much of an achievement. |
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If a HB idea is well described it should show up on an appropriately worded Google search and examiners doing their job properly should be doing a Google search (at least if they can't find anything in the patent databases). So, at least in theory, HB ideas are already being searched. As an Australian patent examiner I have never cited a HB idea (but not for lack of want or trying). |
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Anyway, I heartily endorse the trophy idea and hope that it goes to someone deserving like Farmer John. |
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My "Tundra Treeline" is being considered for implementation by the "world organization of tree science" or something like that though I didn't notice any honourable mention <hmmph>. |
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Much as I agree that the 'B should be cited when applicable, I think it's a silly idea (and not in a good way) to promote the HB or its contents as a free patent-idea trove [ ]... just my 2c. |
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I fishboned this because it's not a new idea by any means. Look
up the Halfbakery's article in Wikipedia sometime. |
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[xaviergisz] - You're a cynic.
Happy now?
Re. the first link: items 5 & 7 are some kind of irony? |
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[cop] same people, later version seems to be longer (I didn't read it fully); more detailed or loopholes closed up I imagine. |
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on the other hand (wikipedia article), there seems to be a few similar sites... I don't think a contest between them/us to see who can get the most patent cites from pre-existing material would be out of order. |
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[admin: Please don't use URL abbreviation services here unless you really, really want to - the links become invalid when the URL abbreviation service goes down, users can't see where you're sending them, and the halfbakery already shortens its own URLs on display.] |
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(-) It's nice that there are patent examiners with a sense of humor out there, and it's nice that the occasional posting here is realistic enough to (almost?) patent - but why push it? |
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I'm outraged no one's tried to patent my "Cheese sputtering
gun" |
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And when someone talked about priors for Curb Side Blow Job, I thought they meant something completely different. |
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I typically am much more interested in "baked" status, especially when suggested products or services get some level of notoriety, as when a venture gets funded. |
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//on the other hand (wikipedia article)// |
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Has anyone read "Observations about Halfbakery from a social perspective" linked at the bottom of wikipedia?
There is an interesting sketch included as well. (link). |
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// much more interested in "baked" status // |
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So are we, especially for "Cat ejection pack" and "Venus cat trap". |
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Our cloud height smoke rocket has already reached the proof-of-concept stage....... |
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//Halbakery Dozen //
Sp: Halfbakery |
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Yeah, how many is a halfbakery dozen ? 13 is way too normal. Would it be 6 + ((-36) ^ 0.5) ? Even though half the number is imaginary it would have a magnitude of 8.5. Stands to reason that a halfbaked dozen is less that a standard dozen. |
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There we go, proof that the HB measures 8.5 on the rickety scale. |
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