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Mistakes Found in 98% of US Patents

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the attention-to-detail dept.

Artem Tashkinov writes to tell us The Register is reporting that almost every US patent contains at least one mistake. The findings from a recent look by Itellevate, a firm that offers support services to intellectual property lawyers, claim that most of these errors are trivial but approximately 2 percent of the patents examined had errors that weakened the core claims of the patent itself.

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  1. That's funny by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    98% of patents are mistakenly granted too!

  2. Breaking News by ironwill96 · · Score: 5, Funny

    In other breaking news, Jimmy Hoffa was found today on a park bench clutching a newspaper whose headline read "Sun found to be hot!" and "Sky really is blue!".

    Patents..wrong..who would've thunk it?

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    "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." - Tennyson
  3. The sky is falling by Lacit · · Score: 5, Funny

    Whoa, you mean people actually read patents?

  4. are you serious? by Aurisor · · Score: 5, Funny

    I find it absolutely impossible to believe that people are incapable of writing a single sentance without making a mistake.

    1. Re:are you serious? by William+Robinson · · Score: 5, Funny
      The mistakes are found by lawyers... :)

      An old joke for your reference..

      One day in Contract Law class, Professor Jepson asked one of his better students, "Now if you were to give someone an orange, how would you go about it?"

      The student replied, "Here's an orange."

      The professor was livid. "No! No! Think like a lawyer!"

      The student then recited, "Okay, I'd tell him, 'I hereby give and convey to you all and singular, my estate and interests, rights, claim, title, calim and advantages of and in, said orange, together with all its rind, juice, pulp, and seeds, and all rights and advantages with full power to bite, cut, freeze and otherwise eat, the same, or give the same away with and without the pulp, juice, rind and seeds, anything herein before or hereinafter or in any deed, or deeds, instruments of whatever nature or kind whatsoever to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding..."

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      hilarious