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Re: Show HN: Retro Patents – Tech patents turned into art

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Post by iplaw »

watsonc73 wrote: post #27
it__guy wrote: post #26

Love the minimalist look. Suggestion: Perhaps you could add a section for fictional patents from sci-fi universes - Warp Drive from Star Trek - Proton pack from Ghostbusters - Memory erasing device from MiB - Iron Man's arc reactor - Batmobile

Awesome suggestion! Sounds like a fun summer project.

Two things -

1) I highly recommend Intentio, http://www.intentioipi.com, if you decide to pursue creation of patent drawings for fictional devices.

2) Be careful you don't tread on copyrights and/or trademarks.

Re: Show HN: Retro Patents – Tech patents turned into art

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Post by andrewguenther »

it__guy wrote: post #26

Love the minimalist look. Suggestion: Perhaps you could add a section for fictional patents from sci-fi universes - Warp Drive from Star Trek - Proton pack from Ghostbusters - Memory erasing device from MiB - Iron Man's arc reactor - Batmobile

I've seen all of these on Etsy.

https://www.etsy.com/shop/thepatentoffice

Re: Show HN: Retro Patents – Tech patents turned into art

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Post by tgb »

irfanka wrote: post #29
gatesphere wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So, maybe offer both styles?

Sounds like a reasonable thing to do - and it's just an additional checkbox on the website, so it's easy too!

Also potentially stocking twice as many items and increasing design work load.

Re: Show HN: Retro Patents – Tech patents turned into art

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Post by jtraffic »

tbirdz wrote: post #8

As far as I am aware Patent Documents are public domain, and not subject to copyright, so if someone wanted a printed patent poster they could grab the document and take it to any large format printer and have it printed there cheaper than it would cost to order from retropatents.com, and they could do this for any patent they were interested in, not just the limited selection available at your store. Does Retro Pate…

> have it printed there cheaper than it would cost to order from retropatents.com

Time is valuable, so is the design effort. If you could measure the value of those things, I'd say it's not really cheaper to do it your way (for many people).

Re: Show HN: Retro Patents – Tech patents turned into art

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Post by Flammy »

dickfickling wrote: post #16

I opened this page in a new tab along with a few other articles I meant to read. After a few seconds, the page title started flashing "Don't forget this" at me. Is this a new way to avoid tab abandonment? I'm not normally one of those people who immediately closes a page that annoys me, but holy shit that was jarring. https://www.dropbox.com/s/a4i3yhsg9jpobhj/Screenshot%202017-...

I thought it was clever. Hadn't seen it done before but I'm sure they weren't the first. I definitely agree this will get annoying very quickly if this catches on.

I also hadn't seen the "Someone from $location recently ordered #item" as a popup. Interesting twist on social validation. Saw it on this page https://www.retropatents.com/collections/all

Re: Show HN: Retro Patents – Tech patents turned into art

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Post by chrisfosterelli »

GuiA wrote: post #15
tbirdz wrote: post #8

As far as I am aware Patent Documents are public domain, and not subject to copyright, so if someone wanted a printed patent poster they could grab the document and take it to any large format printer and have it printed there cheaper than it would cost to order from retropatents.com, and they could do this for any patent they were interested in, not just the limited selection available at your store. Does Retro Pate…

Our society encourages most people to be lazy & unimaginative, who then would rather pay a bit more money to get something readymade than go through all the steps you outlined. Same reason why all those recurring subscription cooking ingredient boxes are so popular. This is wonderful, because if it weren't the case it'd be much harder to start a business. So congrats to the founders of that website on capturing money…

Do you drive all the way to the farm to get your groceries? Or do you get them at a grocery store?

Convenience adds value.

Re: Show HN: Retro Patents – Tech patents turned into art

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Post by iamwil »

it__guy wrote: post #26

Love the minimalist look. Suggestion: Perhaps you could add a section for fictional patents from sci-fi universes - Warp Drive from Star Trek - Proton pack from Ghostbusters - Memory erasing device from MiB - Iron Man's arc reactor - Batmobile

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