Inventor granted patent for snowman

[spacezebra (Petra)]

Interesting and amusing at the same time

http://www.geek.com/articles/geek-ce...ction-2011098/

Cheers Petra d.

[Octane (Humayun)]

Hey Petra,

Your link redirected to the home page. Here's the proper link: http://www.geek.com/articles/geek-ce...ction-2011098/

I work for the patent office. I'll check this out on Monday.

H

[supernova1965 (Warren)]

So what is he going to hire a staff to chase down every kid that builds a snowman he would need to be able to get around like Santa for that. Just how is he going to enforce his patent

[spacezebra (Petra)]

Thanks H

This is so funny - I would love to know if it is genuine.

Cheers Petra d.

[spacezebra (Petra)]

Originally Posted by supernova1965

So what is he going to hire a staff to chase down every kid that builds a snowman he would need to be able to get around like Santa for that. Just how is he going to enforce his patent

[RickS (Rick)]

It isn't a spoof. I just did a patent search on the USPTO web site and found it. Just plug the patent number (8,011,991) into the search engine: http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/search-bool.html

Another fine example of how broken the US patent system is...

Cheers,
Rick.

[Steffen]

It doesn't seem to describe a snowman per se though, but rather an invention to simplify the construction of snowmen compared to the traditional method.

Cheers
Steffen.

[Ric]

That's pretty amazing.