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As we all may have noticed at some point there is a list of references cited adorning the face of every US patent.  Utilizing these lists of references, patents can be connected to other patents through the references cited on their own face, as well as the instances where the patent is cited on a subsequent patent’s face.   By connecting patents in this manner a network begins to form and begs the question: How many steps would it take to connect any patent with any other patent? 

So, starting with any patent where would we find ourselves after 6 steps through the references cited network?

We're sharing our path, but feel free to follow your own path of patent connection intrigue and share it in the comments section below.

Have a suggestion for an inventor or invention you would like to see in the Six Degrees post? Share that in the comments too!

Six Degrees of Christie Brinkley

Six Degrees of the Floppy Disk

Six Degrees of Steve Wozniak

Six Degrees of Astroturf

Six Degrees of the Calculator Wristwatch

 

Six Degrees of Eddie Van Halen

Six Degrees of the Roomba - Patent on a Rotten Tomato of an Idea?

Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon (the inventor)

Six Degrees of the iPhone

Six Degrees of Michael Jackson - Patent on the Moonwalk?

Computer Mouse Patent -- A Bozo of an Idea?

Six Degrees of Walt Disney

6 Degrees of the Microwave - Patents on Heart Stoppers and Starters

Six Degrees of Les Paul -- Patents on Electric Guitars & Baby-Rockers

Patent Search: 6 Degrees of the Post-It Note

Six Degrees: Patents from Head to Toe...er... From Toe to Head

 

Since you are reading a blog, we thought that a set of patents discussing blogs might be interesting to you. 

Assessing author authority and blog influence

Patent on How to Identify a Web Page as a Blog

Patent for Ranking Blogs

A Proposed Alternative Patent for Ranking Blogs

Some Other Interesting Patent Blogs:

Patently-O

Patent Baristas 

IPWatchdog 

Against Monopoly 

Chicago IP Litigation Blog 

Spicy IP 

Is is possible to find humor in patent research?  Call us sick, but we see patents in just about everything we come across in our daily wanderings.  And if you search hard enough, someone has usually patented something involving our sometimes absurd observations.

Can I Patent My Good Memory? I Think So, But I Don't Remember.

Can you Really Patent a Kiss?!?

Marriage Proposal Patent

Patents Light Up the Sky!!

Patents on Beer

Patent Saves RV Vacation!

Kids Say the Darndest Patent Ideas

Facebook and Us -- Our Own Intellectual Property Challenges

A Proposed Alternative Patent for Ranking Blogs

Been There, Done That Patent Ideas

USPTO To Be Fully Current on All Patent Applications by End of Year!

Patent Ideas are Everywhere: Answers to Questions Not Yet Poised

Patent Ideas are Everywhere: More ideas from creative minds

Innovative Ideas That Make You Think - Why Didn't I Patent That?

A Patent for Easier Easter Grass Removal

 

 

Perhaps we're geeks, but we like delving into the world of IP, and we find that data on patents and patent volumes tell a rather interesting story.

Microsoft Receives Patent for Dual-Screen Phone

Big Blue is Still Big -- IBM's Patent Activity

Happy Birthday to the Patent King

Google: Search King; Patent and Telecom Contender

Apple's Prolific Patent Portfolio -- (Try saying that 5 times fast)

Happy 132 to Patent Office Employee (and Physicist) Albert Einstein!

Nintendo Wii Saddle Patent -- Yee Haw!!

2011 National Inventors Hall of Fame

Happy Birthday Patent Act!!!!!

Nice Celebration of World Intellectual Property Day

Another First for the Wright Brothers: Patents Take Flight in May

 

 

Patent Search is what we do.  We live it. We breathe it.  Sometimes we even dream about it.  Once in a while, we even blog about it.

Is a Patent Search Really Necessary?

The Importance of Keeping an Inventors Notebook

Not All Patent Searches Are Created Equal

The Gene Patent Debate: What's Your Perspective?

Are there Benefits to Filing a Provisional Patent?

If You Can't Patent Water, Can't You at Least Patent the Bottle?

Intellectual Property Within the Realm of Spinal Cord Injuries

Going to College, Cigarette Smoking, and... Learning About Patents?