RE: [PIUG List] Re: Global Record Breaking Patents: Longest & Shortest, updated list (v1.7)

Re L2, the PCT equivalent WO 2004/030615 A2 has 7273 pages
 

David England
Patent Attorney

BTG International Ltd


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From: Tralvex (Rex) Yeap [mailto:rex_at_tralvex.com]
Sent: 1 July 2008 15:25
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Subject: [PIUG List] Re: Global Record Breaking Patents: Longest &
Shortest, updated list (v1.7)


What's new in v1.7

L2, L5 and L8.
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Global Record Breaking Patents: Longest & Shortest, updated list (v1.7):

Longest
L1. No. of claims : 8,962 (US Patent App. No. 20030173072)
L2. No. of pages : 7,154 (US20070224201A1)
L3. No. of words : >1,000,000 (US5,146,591)
L4. No. of characters : >20,000,000 (US5,146,591)
L5. No. of figures : 6881 sheets (US20070224201A1)
L6 No. of years (P2G*) : 67 (US6,130,946)
L7. Exemplary claim : 7,799 words / 1,228 chars (US5,408,417)
L8. Citations (Patents) : 1,721 (US7,374,544)
L9. Citations (Lit.) : ?
L10. Title (word) : 42 words / 250 chars (US6,186,793)

* P2G - Priority filing to Grant

Shortest
S1. No. of claims : 1 (Numerous examples)
S2. No. of pages : ? (?)
S3. No. of words : ? (?)
S4. No. of characters : ? (?)
S5. No. of figure : 0 (Numerous examples)
S6. No. of months (A2G) : .4 (US5,841,114)
S7. Exemplary claim : 2 words / 10 chars (US3,156,523)
S8. Citation (Patent) : 0 (Numerous examples)
S9. Citation (Lit.) : 0 (Numerous examples)
S10. Title (word) : 1 word / 2 chars (US2,053,882)

Contributors: Andy, Rex, Michael, Dave, Ron, Guido, Mike, Milan, Victor,
...

PS: A note to contributors: it helps if you can indicate the patent
number because tracking based on limited lead(s) can be very painful.
 
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