{"id":1339,"date":"2007-02-14T18:36:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-15T02:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2007\/02\/14\/united-states-patent-application-0060259306\/"},"modified":"2007-02-14T18:36:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-15T02:36:00","slug":"united-states-patent-application-0060259306","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2007\/02\/14\/united-states-patent-application-0060259306\/","title":{"rendered":"United States Patent Application: 0060259306"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s titled <a href=\"http:\/\/appft1.uspto.gov\/netacgi\/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&amp;Sect2=HITOFF&amp;p=1&amp;u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&amp;r=1&amp;f=G&amp;l=50&amp;co1=AND&amp;d=PG01&amp;s1=jokes.TTL.&amp;OS=TTL\/jokes&amp;RS=TTL\/jokes\">&#8220;Business method protecting jokes&#8221;<\/a> and was granted on November 16, 2006.  Bonus <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">meta<\/span> points for repeatedly using &#8220;homoproprietary&#8221; to describe itself.  Do you really need <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spectrum.ieee.org\/careers\/careerstemplate.jsp?ArticleId=i120204\">further proof that the U.S. patent system is broken<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s titled &#8220;Business method protecting jokes&#8221; and was granted on November 16, 2006. Bonus meta points for repeatedly using &#8220;homoproprietary&#8221; to describe itself. Do you really need further proof that the U.S. patent system is broken?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[32,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sci-tech","category-writing"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}