Links

• US Patent & Trademark Office:www.uspto.gov
• European Patent Office
• Patent of the Week
• Google Patent Search

Famous Patents (you may have to search manually for these)

• 223898 how many light bulbs does it take...
• 408681 rosebuddddddd...
• X72 responsible for more human misery than any other invention?

That's patentable??

• 4,022,227  The Combover
• 6,368,227 Swinging on a swing [at google if the uspto doesn't work] -- notice the reexamination!
• 5,508,049 pizza pie

It does what?

• 3,216,423 Centrifugal baby delivery
• 6,612,440 Is that a banana in your pocket...
• 5,385,154 For those of you who think sex is too much work [google]
• 5,501,650 For those of you who are even lazier... [google]

Design Patents and Trademarks

• D376,811 Elvis disguise
• You're Fired!
• Student Life

Misc

• 6584309 Coke cellphone purchase

Some key Ag-Biotech patents

• 6,608,241 Beachy's "CP"
• 5,352, 605 Monsanto's original 35S patent (see also 5,530,196 and 5,858,742)

Squabbling over species patents on GM cotton

• Mycogen patent on all transformed cotton (challenged by Monsanto)
• Agracetus species patent on cotton (now owned by Monsanto)

Student Entries for Best Patent

• musical condom (Lizzie M.)
• PB&J (Jenny J.)
• device to combat act "frequently practiced by weak-minded boys" ( Zoë U.)
• interesting story on patenting the a-bomb (Nancy S.)
• cordless jump rope (Lucy C.)
• cucumber sandwich (Lucy C.)
• making toast (Nathan O.)
• putting (Nathan O.)
• buttock-kicking device (Nathan O.)
• high-five machine (Nate F.)
• anti-flatulent (Josh M.)
• interesting vignette in fig. 1 (Josh M.)
• Santa Claus detector (Julia B.)