PATENTES

No novo serviço GOOGLE - Patents poderemos procurar pelas patentes que constam nos arquivos de United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Futuramente o serviço será alargado a outros sistemas de patentes espalhados pelo mundo.
Para mim o principal interesse reside na busca da patente mais ridícula. Por aquilo que, até agora, vi elegi uma que acho do melhor:

"Patent number: 5993336 - Method of executing a tennis stroke

1. A method of using a tennis racket during tennis play so as to execute a tennis forehand stroke, comprising:

covering a first knee of a tennis player with a knee pad during tennis play, said tennis player having a second knee and two feet, wherein during said tennis play, the tennis player holds a tennis racket with at least one arm of said tennis player;

placing the covered first knee of the player on a tennis court surface during tennis play., with said knee pad positioned between the first knee and said surface, wherein during said placing step, said second knee is kept out of contact with and above said tennis court surface; and

wherein the tennis racket is swung by the tennis player toward a tennis ball so as to execute a forehand stroke and hit said tennis ball with the said racket during tennis play, wherein said ball is hit with said racket at a time period selected from the group consisting of while said covered first knee is on said tennis court surface, and during said placing step but prior to the covered first knee contacting the tennis court surface."

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