Global Record Breaking Patents (v3.1)

What's new in v3.1
- L1g (Umans), Q9 (Ron).

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Global Record Breaking Patents (v3.1)

[A] Longest
L1a. No. of claims : 8,962 (US Patent App. No. 20030173072)
L1g. No. of claims : 144 (US Patent No. 7169504)
L2a. No. of pages : 7,273 (WO04030615A2)
L2g. No. of pages : ?
L3a. No. of words : ?
L3g. No. of words : >1,000,000 (US5,146,591)
L4a. No. of characters : ?
L4g. No. of characters : >20,000,000 (US5,146,591)
L5a. No. of figures : 6,881 sheets (US20070224201A1)
L5g. No. of figures : ?
L6g. No. of years (P2G#1) : 67 (US6,097,812)
L7a. Exemplary claim : 7,799 words / 1,228 chars (US5,408,417)
L7g. Exemplary claim : ?
L8a. Fwd Cit. (Pat.) : ?
L8g. Fwd Cit. (Pat.) : 1,762 (US4,723,129)
L9a. Bkwd Cit. (Pat.) : ?
L9g. Bkwd Cit. (Pat.) : 869 (US6,991,045)
L10a. Bkwd Cit. (Lit.) : ?
L10g. Bkwd Cit. (Lit.) : 235 (US6,991,045)
L11a. Bkwd Cit. (both) : ?
L11g. Bkwd Cit. (both) : 1,104 (US6,991,045)
L12a. Title (word) : 43 words / 288 characters (IT91180001U0)
L12g. Title (word) : ?
L13a. IPC8 : ?
L13g. IPC8 : 117 (US5,385,764)
L14a. ECLA : ?
L14g. ECLA : 64 (US5,385,764)
L15a. UPC : ?
L15g. UPC : ?
L16a. Most valuable ($) : ?
L16g. Most valuable ($) : ?

[B] Shortest
S1ag. No. of claims : 1 (Numerous examples)
S2ag. No. of pages : 2 (Numerous examples)
S3a. No. of words** : 78 (US20040005535)
S3g. No. of words** : ?
S4a. No. of characters#2 : 524 (US20040005535)
S4g. No. of characters#2 : ?
S5ag. No. of figure : 0 (Numerous examples)
S6g. No. of months (A2G) : .4 (US5,841,114)
S7a. Exemplary claim : ?
S7g. Exemplary claim : 2 words / 10 chars (US3,156,523)
S8ag. B&F Citation (Patent): 0 (Numerous examples)
S9ag. B&F Citation (Lit.) : 0 (Numerous examples)
S10a. Title (word) : ?
S10g. Title (word) : 1 word / 2 chars (US2,053,882)
S11a. Least valuable ($) : ?
S11g. Least valuable ($) : ?

[C] Qualitative#3
Q1. Most cryptic : US20020174863A1, titled "Unknown"
Q2. Most repetitive : ?
Q3. Worse grammatical : ?
Q4. Worse translated : Proposed: EP1064848A1, title "Apparatus
for cutting off the arse of slaughtered poultry"
Q5. Most weird title : Proposed: US20050053626, title "Grace
process biotechnology patent the cure to the herpes virus"
Q6. Strangest claim : Proposed: US20050053626, title "Grace
process biotechnology patent the cure to the herpes virus"
Q7. Most incomprehensible : Proposed: US20040005535, title "Process
of reincarnation"
Q8. "World-changing" #4 : ?
Q9. Most debatable claim : Proposed: US6,025,810, title
"Hyper-light-speed antenna"

Footnotes:
#1 P2G - Priority filing to Grant
#2 in Title+Abstract+Claims+Description
#3 Requires a proposer and a seconder to make it to the list.
#4 Two possible sources:
http://www.law.com/jsp/law/LawArticleFriendly.jsp?id=900005531577;
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bltelephone1.htm

Contributors: Andy Gillanders, Rex, Michael White, Dave Morrison, Ron
Kaminecki (2x), Guido Moradei (2x) , Mike Langdon, Milan
Bhattacharyya, Victor Green, Bill Reding, Jason White, Sara Davis,
Todd Ware, Alan Print, David England (3x), Janet Larsen, Eric
Giannella, Robin Le Goff, Philip Eagle, Edlyn Simmons, Michael Engel,
Peter Atzmueller, Herman Umans, ...


Warmest Regards, Rex.

Received on Wed Aug 06 2008 - 00:32:51