{"id":2682,"date":"2020-02-17T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=2682"},"modified":"2020-02-17T10:40:22","modified_gmt":"2020-02-17T15:40:22","slug":"presidents-day-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=2682","title":{"rendered":"Presidents&#8217; Day 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>While it is appropriate for patent lawyers to acknowledge Abraham Lincoln on Presidents Day (he is, after all, the only president to ever receive a <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=1959\">patent<\/a>) other presidents have be made their mark in patents as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In April 1994,  near the end of an MTV forum on youth and violence, 17-year-old high school student from Potomac, Maryland, famously asked President Clinton&#8221; &#8220;The world is dying to know &#8212; is it boxers or briefs?&#8221;  President Clinton&#8217;s answer, &#8220;usually briefs,&#8221; sparked considerable discussion at the time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A few years later, Robert Wald, of Toluca Lake, California, while the boxers v. briefs debate continued, filed a patent application on Male Boxer Shorts with Integrated Male Briefs, which eventually issued as U.S. Patent No. 5,978,971.  The patent solves the need for a male undergarment that combines the benefits of both boxers and briefs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Fig. 1 of the &#8216;971 Patent, it appears that President Clinton&#8217;s predecessor, George H. W. Bush, makes a guest appearance, modeling the undergarment under his suit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"584\" height=\"802\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/5978971.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/5978971.jpg 584w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/5978971-218x300.jpg 218w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>     <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While it is appropriate for patent lawyers to acknowledge Abraham Lincoln on Presidents Day (he is, after all, the only president to ever receive a patent) other presidents have be made their mark in patents as well. In April 1994, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=2682\">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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-patent-of-the-day"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2682","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=2682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2684,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2682\/revisions\/2684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}