Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Post 28: Silly Patents: Voice Communication Concerning a Local Entity
Continuing on with the trend of silly patents, I encountered a patent filed with the USPTO that pertains to "voice communication concerning a local entity," which in this case, deals with talking to a nearby plant that will notice you being within a certain vicinity. The plant then has a remotely connected person via telephone who can respond to you as if you were having a dialogue with the plant. The image is included below.
I really found it amusing that this patent exists and doesn't seem very useful... but on the other hand, I wouldn't say this is an obvious invention by any means, because it takes a certain amount of imagination to conjure up an invention like this.
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I agree, this definitely does not seem very useful, and another reason why it is pointless that the patent system has to even go through these patents
ReplyDeleteI agree with Vineet as well I don't see how this could be useful in any way. The owner of this patent is has a very vivid imagination but I don't see how people could use this.
ReplyDeleteThis is definitely not useful. Definitely non-obvious, and a novel idea. But this patent/invention makes no sense, and I can't see why anyone would want to do this, unless they are extremely lonely.
ReplyDeleteI think this is the equivalent of an animal whisperer for something that does not respond. This would be helpful if you were going crazy or trying to speak with an unresponsive object like in the movie Castaway.
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