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Absurd patents | Wacky Patents

Thierry LOTTE — Fri, 29 Nov 2002 05:42:00 +0000

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Poster: Thierry LOTTE
Post title: Wacky Patents

If you are lucky enough to find it, try to find the following book :

\" Catalogue d\'objets introuvables \" Editions BALLAND. (in 3 volumes)

It is not compulsory to understand french to be cracked up...

Most of these objects could be patented...

Absurd patents | Politically correct wedding cake knife

Jack Doughty — Fri, 15 Nov 2002 23:43:00 +0000

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Poster: Jack Doughty
Post title: Politically correct wedding cake knife

I regularly produce patent abstracts in English from German. This is one of them:

DE20101199-U1

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Knife for cutting wedding cake, with two handles

NOVELTY The cake knife is made with two handles because of the superstition that when the cake is cut with a conventional knife, the bridegrooms hand is placed on top of the brides hand, and this is taken to be symbolic of who will have the upper hand in the marriage. With two parallel handles, the bride and groom can grip one handle each and neither will be able to claim the upper hand over the other.

USE For cutting a wedding cake.

ADVANTAGE Politically correct.

DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS The drawing shows the two-handled knife.

DE20101199-U1

Absurd patents

Martin Schmurr — Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:34:00 +0000

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Poster: Martin Schmurr

I\'ve found an even better website than the \"wacky patents\" one linked on my ProZ site, with less old patents and with links:

[url removed]

Have fun!

Martin