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Default Frugal Dehumidifier - any good models widely available?


On 24 Apr 2007 06:41:25 -0400, wrote:


This technique was quite useful in New Orleans after Katrina.
By law (US Code 102/103), the patent would not have been
issued if it were not novel.


My post is definitely not on topic, but here goes anyway... Just for
laughs

All patents are probably novel, as in original, new and unique, but to
claim that they are always useful (or sane) is a stretch...

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/crazy.html

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US Patent 6369603 - ‘Animal Toy’ granted to Samuel Pai for a plastic
‘stick’. He was granted that in 1999. The genius is not that he invented
a fake tree branch that you could throw for your dog, no. The true
genius is that he noticed that no one had ever applied for a fake stick
patent and then had the chutzpah to get it patented. Brilliant.

US Patent 3216423 - ‘Apparatus for facilitating the birth of a child by
centrifugal force’.

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