Today, I am going to talk about ridiculous or hilarious patents that we might consider unnecessary.
As my first post, I chose something that I personally liked -- Animal Ear Protectors!
As an animal loving person, having two poodles back at home, I found this stupid, funny, and somewhat brilliant at the fact that you could actually bring this idea out as watching your dog eat food and getting its hair dirty. So, do you have a dog with long, floppy ears, who always get his hair dirty whenever he eats food? Well how are you going to deal with this problem? Just leave it or clean it out with paper towels? Well, you can easily solve this problem if you suggest this patent to the local pet accessory manufacture and let them know about US Patent #4233942.
I guess you would have to decide whether your dog will look funny with stupid tubes around its ears than it would with crusted-up dog food all over itself.
In terms of novelty, I think no one could really think about this idea. Therefore, there won't be a prior art problem where there has been prior art already made. I don't think this invention would be popular enough to be a potential infringement. In order to be potentially dangerous to be over lawsuits, it has to be something that is popular, money-making effective product. Almost no one would quite consider this product as productive and brilliant. Therefore, I consider this as not a potential infringement.
Great post and funny invention! A link to the full patent would have been cool, but great job explaining just how wacky the world of inventions can be!
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