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Global Record Breaking Patents märts 6, 2007

Posted by Mikk Putk in All Posts in English, Fun, Patents.
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Following information is from PIUG discussion list – should be interesting material.
It’s a version v2.3, posted on 4/13/2006, posted by Tralvex.
Contributors: Andy, Rex, Michael, Dave, Ron, Guido (2x), Mike, Milan, Victor, Bill, Jason, Sara, Todd, Alan, Janet, Eric, Robin, …

And please, feel free to complement that list adding your comments. :-)

[A] Longest
L1. No. of claims : 8,962 (US Patent App. No. 20030173072)
L2. No. of pages : 3,337 (US6,278,698)
L3. No. of words : >1,000,000 (US5,146,591)
L4. No. of characters : >20,000,000 (US5,146,591)
L5. No. of figures : 3654 (US6130602, US6278698, US6337634)
L6 No. of years (P2G*) : 67 (US6,097,812)
L7. Exemplary claim : 7,799 words / 1,228 chars (US5,408,417)
L8. Fwd Cit. (Pat.) : 1762 (US4,723,129)
L9. Bkwd Cit. (Pat.) : 869 (US6,991,045)
L10. Bkwd Cit. (Lit.) : 235 (US6,991,045)
L11. Bkwd Cit. (both) : 1,104 (US6,991,045)
L12. Title (word) : 42 words / 250 chars (US6,186,793)
L13. IPC8 : 117 (US5,385,764)
L14. ECLA : 64 (US5,385,764)

* P2G – Priority filing to Grant

[B] Shortest
S1. No. of claims : 1 (CA2227182)
S2. No. of pages : ? (?)
S3. No. of words : ? (?)
S4. No. of characters : ? (?)
S5. No. of months (A2G) : .4 (US5,841,114)
S6. Exemplary claim : 2 words / 10 chars (US3,156,523)
S7. Title (word) : 1 word / 2 chars (US2,053,882)

[C] Qualitative Record
Q1. Most cryptic : Unknown (US20020174863A1)
Q2. Most repetitive : ? (?)
Q3. Least grammatical : ? (?)
Q4. Worse translated : ? (?)
Q5. Most weird title : US20050053626 “Grace process biotechnology patent the cure to the herpes virus”
Q6. Strangest claim : US20050053626

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