Weekly Worthless Patent List

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When any of the below inventors can provide convincing evidence that they have a positive cash flow of $20,000 that has NOT been taken from investors or creditors AND where the essence of their invention is not, due to their patent 'protection,' available in competitors products I will happily place an iconic "Eat Crow" symbol by their listed patent and on their patent pages:

Success at inventing is not gotten through having a "great idea" then "protecting" it by getting a patent. Several things should be done first, including: being sure it isn't an old idea, determining if the marketplace wants the invention at a price at which it can be profitably delivered, and checking to see if it works. The following patents generally, in my opinion, fail big-time on at least one of those criteria. If I'm correct, they are probably worthless as issued and forever will be.

These patents have not been singled out based on an extensive review of each week's patents. Quite the contrary. I simply start through the list of patents in the order they are issued, or randomly pick a starting point, and select the first one that appears to solidly fail on at least one of those criteria (and, usually but not always, is also not assigned to a large firm). Generally I expect such a patent to turn up in the first 20 from wherever I start looking each week for the simple reason that studies of patents show that less than 2% of all patents will ever make anyone any money. (More below)

	Week	Patent #	"Invention"
NEW!	05/17/05	6892912	Roof top carrier with strap attachment loops
NEW!	05/10/05	6889867	Lidded container
NEW!	05/03/05	6886715	Vending system for pet items and method
NEW!	04/26/05	6883678	Food container sealing structure
	04/19/05	6880710	Holder for spectacles
	04/12/05	6877619	Device for holding toothbrush, toothpaste tube and/or solid soap
	04/05/05	6874645	Media disc storage and display device
	03/29/05	6871739	Foldable padded case for a personal computer
	03/22/05	6868943	Safety systems and methods for bosun's chairs
	03/15/05	6866109	Mobility vehicle
	03/08/05	6863142	Motorcycle traction accessory device
	03/01/05	6860334	Walk-behind tiller
	02/22/05	6857460	Portable paintball bunker
	02/15/05	6854470	Cigarette simulator
	02/01/05	6848270	Pendant positioner
	01/25/05	6845769	Foldable conductive oven (III)
	01/18/05	6843241	Soft toss pitching machine
	01/11/04	6840212	Wing structure of air swirling device for internal combustion engine
	01/04/04	6837205	Internal combustion engine
	12/28/04	6834608	Assembly of underwater bodies and launcher therefor
	12/21/04	6832573	Wheel-mounted tire pressure gauge
	12/14/04	6830004	Inflating watercraft flotation device
	12/07/04	6827028	Collapsible support
	11/30/04	6823775	Paper bundling device
	11/23/04	6820519	Cork extractor
	11/16/04	6817271	Wrench for use with drilling apparatus
	11/09/04	6813948	Device for investigating materials
	11/02/04	6810638	Method for forming a cover about a flower pot
	10/26/04	6807679	Mechanism for securing eye protector to helmet
	10/19/04	6804990	Method and apparatus for detecting leaks
	10/12/04	6802174	Method of administering first-aid in a vehicle
	10/05/04	6799332	Two-piece patient examination garment
	09/28/04	6795980	Toilet Bowl Odor Removal System

Pick your own worthless patent at www.uspto.gov/web/patents/patog/, the USPTO Official Gazette access page.

This site is here not to belittle specific inventors but to help beginning inventors see clearly just how far astray ignorance and blind love for an idea can lead them. Ignorance is something everyone has and it is not a bad thing---it does become bad though when one chooses to remain ignorant in a field where they intend to conduct business (whether through venturing or licensing). Blind love, at least in the inventing game, is a bad thing because it leads to BAD business decisions that can ultimately cost serious money. There are literally thousands of companies that will happily take an inventor's money no matter how bad they recognize the inventor's decisions to be. Back to Top