Inventors have been coming up with devices to ameliorate sexual activity for decades . But before Google digitized all the book of the US Patent and Trademark Office to launch their Patent Search feature article , if enterprising creators wanted to control whether their ideas were truly original , they had to research the sex patent by paw .
accord to Dvorah Graeser at KISSPatent , the berth created problems that played out like the patch of a teenage sex comedy :
… rather than necessitate for copies of the relevant patents , some of the ( perhaps embarrassed ) patent attorney / agents and artificer would just slip the patents to attend through them elsewhere – so these patent records kept on disappearing ! Other searchers could n’t see the relevant SexTech patent prior nontextual matter and the USPTO had to keep on replacing them .
get at by make to recopy all these raunchy patent record over and over again , the Patent Office put all of them into one way so the official in billing of the division could keep an center on them .
What made it bad is that on the face of it the Supervisory Primary Examiner was very priggish and buttoned - down , so that the searcher beetle recover themselves embarrassedly slink into her office to ask to see “ those patents ” – and then slinking back out again after doing their hunting – all with the Supervisory Primary Examiner looking on .
So hurrah for the 21st one C , when you could explore for inflatable safety ( US 4281648 A ) or cervical - delight - enhancer ( US 8070674 B1 ) from the consolation of your own office .
[ KISSPatent ]
Diagram of inflatable condom fromUS 4281648 A.
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