Innovators Gone Wild: Patent Office Issues 8,000,000th Patent ⇢

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And the winner is: Second Sight Medical Products, Inc., which has just received patent number 8,000,000 for a device to help people with a certain type of vision impairment see better.

Patent No. 8,000,000 is not actually the 8,000,000th patent granted in the United States. Patent No. 1 wasn’t issued until 1836; the approximately 10,000 earlier patents used a different indexing system. About 8,000 of those early patents were destroyed in a fire.

In recent years, the number of patents applied for and received has skyrocketed, and the Patent Office has struggled to keep up. There are approximately 700,000 applications waiting for review. One million patents were issued in the last five years.

» via The Atlantic

18 August 12 infoneer-pulse

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