Cry No More Patent:
Looking at the drawing above, it may not be inherently obvious what the ‘Cry No More’ patent actually does. Granted by the US Patent Office in 2000, this stupid patent is meant to act as a ‘baby muzzle’ that prevents babies from crying. This patent works by acting as a pacifier that does not allow the babies to make noise. To me, I see this patent as ridiculous for a number of reasons.
The patent claims sum up this device as follows: "The inventive device includes a pacifier having an outwardly extending guard plate, apertures in opposite sides of the guard plate, and adjustable straps employing hook and loop fasteners to form loops for engaging the straps between the apertures in the guard plate and an infant's ears.”
The ultimate purpose of this device is to prevent the baby from spitting out his or her pacifier because of an attached strap to said pacifier that wraps around the baby’s ears. While this patent is definitely abstract and is not obvious, I believe it is extremely immoral and ineffective. At their age, babies do not have the ability to form a verbal opinion or give any form of consent showing that they are okay with being ‘muzzled’. In addition to the immorality of this patent, some babies are capable of easily detaching the straps from his or her ears if they are in any sort of discomfort. In my opinion, this patent is not worth any sort of effort resulting in going to market with a product because it would surely fail immediately.
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This is truly an absurd patent because if anything happened to the baby, there would be no way to alert parents. This is incredibly dangerous for everyone involved, but I guess it does have a use case.
ReplyDeleteThis patent is really offensive and insensitive no less stupid. It reminds me of the "snore depressor" via electrocution which makes utterly no sense. If this product ever does go to market the only people who would be buying it are criminals
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