{"id":28,"date":"2006-08-08T00:24:50","date_gmt":"2006-08-07T22:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackbag.toool.nl\/?p=28"},"modified":"2006-08-08T00:25:56","modified_gmt":"2006-08-07T22:25:56","slug":"digging-for-gold-in-the-patent-database","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackbag.toool.nl\/?p=28","title":{"rendered":"Digging for gold in the patent database"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a lot of people smarter then you. And most of them are dead.<br \/>\nAt least that is my impression when digging trough the goldmines of<br \/>\nthe <a title=\"US patent and trademark office\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uspto.gov\/\">USPTO<\/a> (United States Patent and Trademark Office). Just search for<br \/>\n&#8216;Lock AND pick AND decoder&#8217; or other queries. The results are amazing.<br \/>\nEspecially if you go back before 1950.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"lock decoder\" alt=\"lock decoder\" src=\"http:\/\/blackbag.toool.nl\/images\/patent-1.jpg\" \/>\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>(lock decoder 1937 by H. Abrams)<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately it is not possible to save or\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0print these pieces of<br \/>\nart. Or maybe I am just lazy and did not invest enough time. So I just<br \/>\ntook advantage of the &#8216;analog loophole&#8217; and took a picture of my<br \/>\nscreen to show you what to expect on that site. For hours and hours of<br \/>\nfun and education visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/patft.uspto.gov\/netahtml\/PTO\/search-adv.htm\">http:\/\/patft.uspto.gov\/netahtml\/PTO\/search-adv.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Happy hunting!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a lot of people smarter then you. And most of them are dead. At least that is my impression when digging trough the goldmines of the USPTO (United States Patent and Trademark Office). Just search for &#8216;Lock AND pick AND decoder&#8217; or other queries. The results are amazing. Especially if you go back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":171,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackbag.toool.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackbag.toool.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackbag.toool.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackbag.toool.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/171"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackbag.toool.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackbag.toool.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackbag.toool.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackbag.toool.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackbag.toool.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}