Oh good grief

[bronwynrh]

This is edited to protect confidentiality, not that it matters in this case.

Reference to "1 to 15 [rosebuds]" includes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 or 15 [rosebuds].

and

For example, one [chain] may be from about three to about 100 [links] in
length such as 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24,
25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48,
49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72,
73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96,
97, 98, 99, 100.

This, boys and girls, is why the provisional patent specification I'm trying to read is 122 pages long, when it could be 10.

Damned lawyers.

Comments

[kendokamel.livejournal.com]

*headdesk*

[lawgirlvt.livejournal.com]

Hey now - some of us use our lawyerly powers for good. :)

Of course, as you have experienced, some are still trying to prove to the rest of the world that there are not enough lawyer jokes out there.....

[bramey.livejournal.com]

I know, I should have ETA'd with Present Company Excluded

:)

[whizkid1357.livejournal.com]

Aren't patent applications fun to read :)

I like to use them as sleeping aids ;)

[bramey.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's definitely yawn-inducing! Sheesh!

[whizkid1357.livejournal.com]

I also love how sometimes they get it to a point where even I have a hard time understanding what they mean, and it's my idea to begin with.

Uniqueness through obfuscation! Fun.

I wonder if the same idea was written up by two different lawyers if it either one would ever resemble the other. Could file both and get 2 patents for essentially the same thing ;)

[curlicue.livejournal.com]

This is just unbelievible.

[bramey.livejournal.com]

What's really unbelievable is that these phrases are repeated about a half-dozen times, plus there's the "1 to 100" paras and the paras that list every dad-blasted mental disorder known to man (almost).