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The most romantic patent application |
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Written by Felix Da Silva (fdasilva@bitnip.com)
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Sunday, 06 April 2008 |
 Ryan Thomas Grace of Omaha filed a patent application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) as a
means of proposing to his girlfriend.
In the patent application found here, claim 1 states:
A method for offering marriage to an individual by converting a patent
application into an offer to marry an individual, comprising the steps of:
drafting a patent application to disclose an invention, wherein the patent
application is drafted in a tangible medium; drafting a marriage proposal that
proposes marriage to the individual, wherein the marriage proposal is drafted in
a tangible medium; and incorporating the marriage proposal into the patent
application, wherein the patent application is converted into an offer to marry
the individual for offering marriage to the individual during a proposal event.
In claim 25, it states
The method of claim 1 wherein at least one claim of the offer to marry recites:
"Ellie I've been in love with you for the last five years. I've known this since
the day we met and the time we've spent together since that day has only made me
realize this fact more. You have been by my side in every way a person could
possibly hope and I would like nothing more than to spend the rest of my life
with you. Will you please marry me? In claim 26, it states:
26. The method of claim 25, wherein at least one claim of the offer to marry
recites "Ellie if you will marry me, after reading the remainder of this patent
application, open the other envelope and tell the limousine driver to take you
to the airport. I do not know what the outcome of this patent application or the marriage proposal is. However, this is undoubtedly one of the most original, if a bit nerdy, proposal I have seen.
I wonder if I can get a license of his patent...
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