Happy Patent Day

[Jim Watson]

Anniversary No. 112

 

[rust collector]

I see that it took almost a year to process the patent application. Application filed Feb 17, 1910. If not for bureaucratic delay, our beloved 1911 would have been a 1910.

 

[tarosean]

I see that it took almost a year to process the patent application.

slightly before the computer age.

 

[Dave DeLaurant]

slightly before the computer age.

Yeah, but we're still firmly within the age of bureaucratic molasses.

 

[Howland937]

I see that it took almost a year to process the patent application. Application filed Feb 17, 1910. If not for bureaucratic delay, our beloved 1911 would have been a 1910.

I for one am glad it isn't a 1910. Such a classic deserves all the syllables it can get.

 

[Buckeye63]

Nineteen e-rev-in

 

[CapnMac]

would have been a 1910.

And JMB also had a patent for his 1910 Commercial, too. He probably had a significant portion of the patents being reviewed at the Patent Office, too.