{"id":3926,"date":"2024-07-27T10:20:01","date_gmt":"2024-07-27T15:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=3926"},"modified":"2024-07-27T10:20:01","modified_gmt":"2024-07-27T15:20:01","slug":"july-26-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=3926","title":{"rendered":"July 26, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On July 26, 1775, the U.S. postal system was established by the Second Continental Congress, with Benjamin Franklin appointed the first postmaster general.  Although no patents surround the creation of the postal service (the first U.S. patent did not issue until fifteen years later, on July 31, 1790), the U.S. Postal Service has received 660 patents since 1975, on things like digital stamps (US11348056) and mailboxes (D727589)<\/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\/07\/image-36.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"527\" height=\"754\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/image-36.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3927\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/image-36.png 527w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/image-36-210x300.png 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 527px) 100vw, 527px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/image-37.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"578\" height=\"752\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/image-37.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3928\" style=\"width:576px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/image-37.png 578w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/image-37-231x300.png 231w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 578px) 100vw, 578px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to imagine the Postal Service ever enforcing these patents against FedEx or UPS, but they probably provide a good defense against third party claims against the Postal Service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 26, 1775, the U.S. postal system was established by the Second Continental Congress, with Benjamin Franklin appointed the first postmaster general. Although no patents surround the creation of the postal service (the first U.S. patent did not issue &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=3926\">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-3926","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\/3926","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=3926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3929,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926\/revisions\/3929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}