{"id":5542,"date":"2026-09-26T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=5542"},"modified":"2026-09-26T19:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T00:44:07","slug":"september-26-2026-patent-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=5542","title":{"rendered":"September 26, 2026, Patent of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On September 26, 1967, U.S. Patent Nos. D208754 and D208755 issued to John O. Hruby each on a Water Fountain:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-25.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"535\" height=\"781\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-25.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5543\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.6905592642639614;width:370px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-25.png 535w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-25-206x300-1.png 206w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 535px) 100vw, 535px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-26.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"527\" height=\"810\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-26.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5544\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.6565444210854162;width:362px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-26.png 527w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-26-195x300-1.png 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 527px) 100vw, 527px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What is unique about these patents is that they are directed to the flowing water, and not any permanent physical structure.  Unfortunately for Mr. Hruby, he had to go to the CCPA get his patents.  See, Application of John O. Hruby, Jr, 373 F.2d 997 (C.C.P.A. 1967).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 26, 1967, U.S. Patent Nos. D208754 and D208755 issued to John O. Hruby each on a Water Fountain: What is unique about these patents is that they are directed to the flowing water, and not any permanent physical &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=5542\">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-5542","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\/5542","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=5542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5545,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5542\/revisions\/5545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}