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.

At 10:59 PM 3/7/2006, Bill Reding wrote:
>GB 2377301 has 109 figures.
>EP 1259930 has 207 figures.
>
>Hope that helps.
>
>Have you thought of those much more challenging
>categories:
>
>- Most impenetrable / worst written / least
>explanatory / hardest to read/understand
>- Most repetitive
>- Least grammatical / worst translated
>
>Bill Reding
>
> >>> "Tralvex (Rex) Yeap" <co_at_tralvex.com> 04/03/2006
>18:32:30 >>>
>Global Record Breaking Patents: Longest & Shortest,
>updated list
>(v1.6):
>
>Longest
>L1. No. of claims : 8,962 (US Patent App. No.
>20030173072)
>L2. No. of pages : 3,071 (US5,146,591)
>L3. No. of words : >1,000,000 (US5,146,591)
>L4. No. of characters : >20,000,000 (US5,146,591)
>L5. No. of figures : 37 (US5,146,591)
>L6 No. of years (P2G*) : 67 (US6,130,946)
>L7. Exemplary claim : 7,799 words / 1,228 chars
>(US5,408,417)
>L8. Citations (Patents) : ?
>L9. Citations (Lit.) : ?
>L10. Title (word) : 42 words / 250 chars
>(US6,186,793)
>
>* P2G - Priority filing to Grant
>
>Shortest
>S1. No. of claims : ? (?)
>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, ...
>
>PS: Stephen, earlier correspondence on this
>record-breaking thread did
>suggest expanding beyond US, the Taiwan 'Jug' patent
>was unfortunately
>quickly replaced by this very old but interesting
>2-char 1836 US
>patent:
>AX
>
>PPS: A note to contributors: it helps if you can
>indicate the patent
>number because tracking based on limited lead(s) can
>be very painful.
>
>At 08:56 PM 3/3/2006, Milan Bhattacharyya wrote:
>
>
>Several patents have this two letter title, thanks to
>American
>spelling
>
>
><http://v3.espacenet.com/textdoc?DB=EPODOC&IDX=US2053882&F=0>
>http://v3.espacenet.com/textdoc?DB=EPODOC&IDX=US2053882&F=0
>
>
>
>
>Milan Bhattacharyya
>
>
>Victor Green & Company
>
>
>Warmest Regards, Rex.


Warmest Regards, Rex.

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