Another case of pure ugly art is a horse-shaped building

Throughout history, one of the classic forms of sculpture is that of horses, the challenging being to capture the beauty of the natural horse form in a static object. Such sculptures can be made of many materials, including wood, so that a sculpture of a horse done in wood is a work of pure art. Now most such sculptures tend to be life-sized to miniatures, but heck, let's have some fun, be avant-garde artistes and build a horse sculpture the size of a multi-story building. Maybe in tribute to the Trojan horse, itself a work of art in story form. Despite its massive size, it's still a work of art. And what the heck, let's live in this large wooden horse sculpture. Otherwise known as U.S. Patent 5,564,239. All art is art. If some art is patentable, all art is patentable, no matter how many nonsensical statements made by IP government officials and judges, who know less about art than they do about science and engineering.

Insider view of Nokia's patent mill

Wiley publishers has just published a book by Donal O'Connell, "Inside the Patent Factory". Its 323 pages describe the patent (churning) process at Nokia, where O'Connell works. With so many pages, it should be a useful guide to patenting at large global corporations.

THE FIRST ROTATING HOUSE TURNS 50

Tuesday's New York Times carries a nice article on Belgian independent inventor Francois Massau (1905-2002), who in 1958 built one of the first rotating houses, a patentable artistic-engineering idea becoming more popular, since such houses captures/blocks more sunlight for free heating/cooling.