(25) New patents

Boy, do I hate that freshpatents.com list I get each month....it's pretty nervewracking to scroll through nearly 50 patents published a month having to do with the same general domain as mine. I probably won't be surprised when my idea shows up in someone else's patent, seeing as how busy the world is around the 'wheels' domain. 46 patents published this month, everything from "wheel lock for casters" to "aircraft front nose landing gear and method of making an aircraft landing gear". Huh? I thought these things were invented already; probably the particular claim around a particular method wasn't - I can't wait until my patent issues, and all the 'design-arounds' that the copiers will immediately create. Sure.

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