Reinventing a Patent Case: Cob Burandt is Still Down and Out in Ham Lake, But His Attorneys Have Just Begun to Fight-Again

Just before this special issue on invention went to press, I got a message from IEEE senior member and patent attorney George Macdonald. Nearly two decades after I first reported on Corliss Orville “Cob” Burandt's struggle with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the 77-year-old inventor's patent case was being revived.

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IEEE Spectrum
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2024-11-01
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https://doi.org/10.1109/mspec.2024.10749726
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Intellectual Property and Patents
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Reinventing a Patent Case: Cob Burandt is Still Down and Out in Ham Lake, But His Attorneys Have Just Begun to Fight-Again

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Reinventing a Patent Case: Cob Burandt is Still Down and Out in Ham Lake, But His Attorneys Have Just Begun to Fight-Again

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Abstract

Just before this special issue on invention went to press, I got a message from IEEE senior member and patent attorney George Macdonald. Nearly two decades after I first reported on Corliss Orville “Cob” Burandt's struggle with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the 77-year-old inventor's patent case was being revived.

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