The Patent of the Month (or "Yes, It's Mine. No You Can't Touch It.")

By way of Things Magazine, we ran across Idea’s 21‘s “Patent of the Month” feature, curated by the British Library’s Steve Van Dulken. Besides really liking his first name, he’s got a great batch of essays here about all kinds of interesting things. Mostly stories about inventive product design, but also stuff like an ode to product placement in the new James Bond film. But how is that a patent? Here’s a bit of that: