http://daysthatendiny.com/2007/01/13/beerbrella-for-when-you-cant-drink-fast-enough/ Alcohol's Official Weblog Sun, 23 Nov 2008 16:39:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://daysthatendiny.com/2007/01/13/beerbrella-for-when-you-cant-drink-fast-enough/#comment-367 robertplattbell Sat, 20 Jan 2007 21:24:39 +0000 http://daysthatendiny.com/wordpress/?p=942#comment-367 I'm glad you liked Beerbrella. Your comment about "our government dollars at work" is really off-target. The Patent Office actually generates a profit for the U.S. Government (as does the Post Office) from the user fees. So "your government dollars" are not at work here, but mine are. I wrote this Patent as an exercise, and there were five similar Patents cited as "Prior Art" - but since none were named "Beerbrella" the rest faded to obscurity. So far, the Patent has appeared in Smithsonian Magazine, Reader's Digest, Time, MSN, and I even had an inquiry from the Conan O'Brien Show. I've written hundreds of Patents for various clients, which have been sold for millions of dollars. But I'm afraid I'll go down in history as one of the inventors of the "Beerbrella". Oh well..... Cheers. I’m glad you liked Beerbrella. Your comment about “our government dollars at work” is really off-target. The Patent Office actually generates a profit for the U.S. Government (as does the Post Office) from the user fees. So “your government dollars” are not at work here, but mine are. I wrote this Patent as an exercise, and there were five similar Patents cited as “Prior Art” - but since none were named “Beerbrella” the rest faded to obscurity. So far, the Patent has appeared in Smithsonian Magazine, Reader’s Digest, Time, MSN, and I even had an inquiry from the Conan O’Brien Show. I’ve written hundreds of Patents for various clients, which have been sold for millions of dollars. But I’m afraid I’ll go down in history as one of the inventors of the “Beerbrella”. Oh well….. Cheers.

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