Show HN: Explore ideas whose patent protection expires today
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Show HN: Explore ideas whose patent protection expires today
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Re: Show HN: Explore ideas whose patent protection expires today
#2The majority [1] of patents are never commercially exploited or licensed - I wanted a way to browse recently expired patents to find hidden gems and get inspired by existing inventions. The site uses the recently released USPTO-API [2] to fetch newly expired patents each day.
NB: The reason the most recent patents displayed are from 12/31 is because no new patents were granted during the first few days of January 1997.
[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/danielfisher/2014/06/18/13633/#7...
Re: Show HN: Explore ideas whose patent protection expires today
#3I was randomly clicking and found this one:
https://patents.google.com/patent/US5588162
The Legal events at the bottom says it expired in 2001. Seems strange?
Re: Show HN: Explore ideas whose patent protection expires today
#4Fellow hackers, a word of advice... always start with the marketing before building a product.
I too think a power actuated toilet seat sounds like a fantastic foundation for a business, but it's what the market things... not what your gut thinks.
Re: Show HN: Explore ideas whose patent protection expires today
#5I was randomly clicking and found this one: https://patents.google.com/patent/US5588162 The Legal events at the bottom says it expired in 2001. Seems strange?
Thanks for the feedback :)!
The patent in question was granted on 1996-12-31, which means it should have expired on 2016-12-31. The status on Google Patents says "Expired - Fee Related" so I'm guessing they didn't pay a required fee somewhere down the line?
Re: Show HN: Explore ideas whose patent protection expires today
#6I was randomly clicking and found this one: https://patents.google.com/patent/US5588162 The Legal events at the bottom says it expired in 2001. Seems strange?
Say it's expired early for not paying fees.
Still hard to know what the actual legal state is.
The site lists them by filing grant date plus 20 years, which is on the safer option when compared to premature expirations which might be fought in court.
Re: Show HN: Explore ideas whose patent protection expires today
#7You get interesting things when you type Linux[0].
Re: Show HN: Explore ideas whose patent protection expires today
#8Fellow hackers, a word of advice... always start with the marketing before building a product. I too think a power actuated toilet seat sounds like a fantastic foundation for a business, but it's what the market things... not what your gut thinks.
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Re: Show HN: Explore ideas whose patent protection expires today
#9Fellow hackers, a word of advice... always start with the marketing before building a product. I too think a power actuated toilet seat sounds like a fantastic foundation for a business, but it's what the market things... not what your gut thinks.
I'm trying to understand what it does by looking at pictures and reading this description but I have no idea: https://patents.google.com/patent/US5588162 is it just raising and lowering toilet seat based on input? So I can sit on toilet manipulate some handle and it will lower my seat level?
Re: Show HN: Explore ideas whose patent protection expires today
#10Fellow hackers, a word of advice... always start with the marketing before building a product. I too think a power actuated toilet seat sounds like a fantastic foundation for a business, but it's what the market things... not what your gut thinks.
I'm trying to understand what it does by looking at pictures and reading this description but I have no idea: https://patents.google.com/patent/US5588162 is it just raising and lowering toilet seat based on input? So I can sit on toilet manipulate some handle and it will lower my seat level?
> 1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates generally to devices for assisting infirm or injured individuals to move from a standing position to a sitting position and from a sitting position to a standing position. More particularly, the instant invention is directed to a toilet seat which is configured to assist infirm individuals in lowering themselves to and raising themselves from the sitting position.