{"id":1854,"date":"2017-12-14T09:22:54","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T14:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=1854"},"modified":"2017-12-15T09:42:44","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T14:42:44","slug":"no-need-to-be-your-own-lexicographer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=1854","title":{"rendered":"No Need to be your Own Lexicographer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The word of the day for December 14 from\u00a0<strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/protect-us.mimecast.com\/s\/RKWvBZUKl6nuM\">Wordsmith.org<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>is ensiform, meaning sword-shaped, which is a potentially useful work for patent prosecutors, and in fact has been useful to at least a few:<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Patent No. 9,061,129:<a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/9061129-ensiform.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1857\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/9061129-ensiform.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"405\" height=\"104\" \/><\/a>Col. 15: 21-25.\u00a0 U.S. Patent No. 5,489,406:<a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/5489406-ensiform.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1858\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/5489406-ensiform.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"406\" height=\"233\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Col. 3, lns. 36-47.\u00a0 Lastly, U.S. Patent No. 5,460,842:<a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/5460842.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1859\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/5460842.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"411\" height=\"233\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Col. 8, lns. 7-18 is a virtual thesaurus for words describing stabby things.\u00a0 The English language is so rich in descriptive words that patent drafters don&#8217;t always have to make up their own.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The word of the day for December 14 from\u00a0\u00a0Wordsmith.org\u00a0is ensiform, meaning sword-shaped, which is a potentially useful work for patent prosecutors, and in fact has been useful to at least a few: U.S. Patent No. 9,061,129:Col. 15: 21-25.\u00a0 U.S. Patent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=1854\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-vocabulary"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1854"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1860,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854\/revisions\/1860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}