{"id":3647,"date":"2024-02-29T10:52:09","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T16:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=3647"},"modified":"2024-02-29T10:52:09","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T16:52:09","slug":"february-29-2024-no-leap-patents-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=3647","title":{"rendered":"February 29, 2024 &#8212; No Leap Patents This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Of course. today being a Thursday, no U.S. patents will issue today,  A patent issuing on February 29 is a relatively rare thing.  In fact, in the history of the U.S. Patent Office, only about 6787 patents have issued on February 29.  Leap patents issued in 1820, 1848, 1876, 1916, 1944, 1972, and 2000.  The last utility patent to issue on February 29 was U.S. Patent No. 6,032,181:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image-41.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"646\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image-41.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3648\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image-41.png 450w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image-41-209x300.png 209w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The last design patent to issue on February 29 was U.S. Patent No. D421277<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image-42.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"458\" height=\"673\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image-42.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3649\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image-42.png 458w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image-42-204x300.png 204w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 458px) 100vw, 458px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>There won&#8217;t be another February 29 U.S. patent until February 29, 2028.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of course. today being a Thursday, no U.S. patents will issue today, A patent issuing on February 29 is a relatively rare thing. In fact, in the history of the U.S. Patent Office, only about 6787 patents have issued on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=3647\">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-3647","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\/3647","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=3647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3650,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3647\/revisions\/3650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}