{"id":754,"date":"2007-04-09T08:49:25","date_gmt":"2007-04-09T16:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=754"},"modified":"2007-04-09T09:01:57","modified_gmt":"2007-04-09T17:01:57","slug":"for-the-person-who-has-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/?p=754","title":{"rendered":"For the person who has everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever a patent is granted, the first sign of it is a flurry of weird mail emanating from a well-oiled spam machine that never seems to fail.&nbsp; It is delivered right to your home address, presumably&nbsp;because the government&nbsp;releases information without&nbsp;setting any conditions on&nbsp;its use.&nbsp; Beyond having to sort through more garbage, the whole premise of the marketing campaign&nbsp;is creepy.&nbsp; Here&#39;s an example courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patentawards.com\/uspatentproducts.cfm\" class=\"broken_link\">Patent Awards<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img align=\"right\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/2007\/04\/patent.jpg\" \/>Your patent commemorative is more than metal and wood &#8211; it is tangible evidence that you have made a contribution to this world and future generations.&nbsp; One of our customers, Mr. Hank Cutler, said it best:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>It is always rewarding to have tangible evidence of one&#39;s work, apart from publications.&nbsp; [Gee!&nbsp; I didn&#39;t know that my father\/grandfather\/great grandfather did that, but here&#39;s a plaque to prove it.&nbsp; Guess I&#39;ll have to do better than that.]&nbsp; Their presence, in family hostory, fuels future generations to do better things.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What better reason is there to buy a patent commemorative plaque or frame?&nbsp; Create your lasting memory so that your &#8220;presence, in family history, fuels future generations to do better things&#8221; by placing an order for your patent plaque or frame today!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Funny, I think of the&nbsp;tangible evidence as being the success of some technology.&nbsp; The patent is just a necessity for&nbsp;protecting your&nbsp;business in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>The family history stuff is stupefying.&nbsp; The last thing I would want is to consciously drive&nbsp;my own children to compete with me.&nbsp;&nbsp;I&#39;m just glad that they&nbsp;are out of beta .&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But hey.&nbsp;&nbsp;The plaques are&nbsp;so reasonable &#8211; anywhere between $128 and $525.&nbsp; Let&#39;s get a bunch.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US patent procedures promote mail spam, revealing your home address to weirdos<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}