{"id":4502,"date":"2025-01-05T07:56:29","date_gmt":"2025-01-05T13:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=4502"},"modified":"2025-01-05T07:56:29","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T13:56:29","slug":"january-5-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=4502","title":{"rendered":"January 5, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On January 5, 1999, Nicholas Bromer received U.S. Patent No. 5,855,098 on a Spiral Patent Office:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-6.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"610\" height=\"879\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-6.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4503\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-6.png 610w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-6-208x300.png 208w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The invention was not limited to buildings for a patent office, and applies to any organization that houses archives or ordered collections, the &#8220;best example&#8221; being the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The patent notes that &#8220;[f]or years, the talk has been that computers will do away with the paper patent collection.  However, like &#8220;artificial intelligence&#8221;, this has not happened despite the computer enthusiasts&#8217; optimism.  The patent office will probably depend on its paper collections well into the next century.&#8221;  This prediction from 1996 turned out to be wrong, so it looks like we may never see a spiral patent office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 5, 1999, Nicholas Bromer received U.S. Patent No. 5,855,098 on a Spiral Patent Office: The invention was not limited to buildings for a patent office, and applies to any organization that houses archives or ordered collections, the &#8220;best &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=4502\">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-4502","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\/4502","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=4502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4504,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4502\/revisions\/4504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}