And no “Q.” Gonna go found the Fort Wayne Quails.

Patent application, not patent.

Southern California is well represented on this list.

Looks like a marketing tie-in with the Venom movie

It’s just bored and yawning.

It looks like Ben Affleck as Batman.

Time for some pedantry. It’s not the 10 millionth patent, just number 10,000,000. Design patents and plant patents have separate numbering systems than utility patents, and a fire at the Patent Office in the 1830s destroyed all the patents, so the utility patent numbering restarted at 1. None of those counted toward…

It’s just an application. They don’t have a patent on it yet, and the patent they eventually get will probably have narrower coverage than what’s described here.

FYI, the cat is internet-famous.

Def a vampire

Mustang, if you hope he becomes an SEC quarterback.

Except that the independent claims all mention a “flight mode,” meaning you would need to build a car that flies to infringe. If an employee has an idea, a company like Toyota errs on the side of filing for a patent. The strategy may be nothing more than “why not?"

It’s an application. They don’t have a patent yet.

They may be worried about being sued for the issue that necessitated the repair, not the repair itself.

Important question: the plant on top of the box is not “in” the box, so it belongs to the friend and not him, right?

Whatever the name for this is:

Here is another version of the top picture.

4th: The study only covers new-car sales. If you’re in college and buying a new car, you’re probably spending your parents’ money instead of your own, which may explain the difference in frugality.

... Edsel