[LMB] calling all patent examiners OT:

[Katrina Allis]

On 02/11/06, James <cessnadriver at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/1/06, J Selin <harimad2001 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > I'm curious: does anyone know how often claims like claim 9 are
> > > included in draft applications?
>

No idea, but I was checking some registered trade mark specs against the New
Zealand database recently and was rather surprised to come across one for
"injectable nitroglyercin" [1].  Then I had to explain to my co-workers just
why I was laughing.

It's the only one on the database with that spec, too.

It also amuses me to note that while IPONZ kept trade mark #1 on the
register (filed 1901), the earliest trade mark that is still currently
registered is #65 TIGER TEA, filed in 1918. [2]

Katrina

[1] It's for heart conditions but I didn't know that at the time.  It still
sounds rather odd.
[2] I was bored at work and searching IPONZ is a semi-legit waste of time
for me.  A bit like reading the company website.
-- 
I have CDO.  It's like Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, only in alphabetical
order as it should be.

Prayer, he suspected as he hoisted himself up and turned for the door, was
putting one foot in front of the other.  Moving all the same.
Lois McMaster Bujold, _Curse of Chalion_