Quick Draw Call Patent:
The picture above is a snapshot of a ‘Quick Draw Call’ patent granted in 2004. The purpose of this patent it to provide a means of storage for your cellphone on one’s upper wrist, near one’s hand. Essentially, this device acts as a strap that allows the user to ‘slide’ a phone upwards from their upper wrist into their hand when wanting to use his or her phone.
While this may have been a potentially interesting idea twenty years ago, this patent is extremely silly today. The patent claims that “not one of the devices actually known allows the possibility of quickly and easily setting the cellular telephone to its use condition and then as well quickly and easily setting it back to rest”. This claim is obsolete: flip phones are no longer widely used, and the necessity of having a cellphone does not trump one’s comfort in day-to-day activities.
According to its claims, the primary purpose of this ‘Quick Draw Call’ patent is to quicken the time it takes between phone storage and phone usage. I personally see the purpose of this patent as ridiculous. Today, most cellphone users store their phone in their clothing pockets. It would not take longer than five seconds for one to reach into their pocket and retrieve their cellphone. While this patent is abstract and not necessarily obvious, it definitely seems purposeless to me. As technology advances and our cellphones become both more storable and more efficient, pursuing any sort of business endeavors with this device is surely not worth any time or effort.
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