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USPTO Unable to Find Top Ten Patent Holders

Posted by samzenpus on from the powdered-water dept.

lelitsch writes "So a journalist tries to interview the top ten patent holders in the US. As he finds out, neither the USPTO, nor the patent processing companies are able to identify them. Even more surprisingly, "America's greatest inventor is apparently an obscure guy in Japan who makes stuff most people can't comprehend. And the nation's greatest native inventor seems to be a man who has come up with 100 different ways to make a flower pot.""

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  1. Re:"A database operator's nightmare" by I+Like+Pudding · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    uid is fine. If you don't file with the same name, you're disqualified. If you change your name, disqualified. Get married and are a woman? Dis-fucking-qualified. I want my wife at home barefoot in the kitchen, not injecting buckyballs into some rhesus monkey's anus.

    Your post? Disqualified, since you have forgotten how to love.