{"id":1178,"date":"2015-11-17T14:26:43","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T14:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/?p=1178"},"modified":"2015-11-17T14:26:43","modified_gmt":"2015-11-17T14:26:43","slug":"floccinaucinihilipilification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/2015\/11\/17\/floccinaucinihilipilification\/","title":{"rendered":"Floccinaucinihilipilification"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"dog\"<\/a>A post from student blogger Nicole<\/em><\/p>\n

Doesn\u2019t the title look like a made up work?\u00a0 Well believe it or not it\u2019s actually real!\u00a0 It\u2019s pronounced [flok-suh-naw-suh-nahy-hil-uh-pil-uh-fi-key-shuh n] and it\u2019s one of the longest words in the English language. \u00a0It means the estimation of something as valueless.\u00a0 Well I sure can think of something that\u2019s valueless and it\u2019s this word.\u00a0 Who would ever use this word in a sentence or write it down.\u00a0 It\u2019s definitely not worth the 3 minutes it even takes to say it, if you didn\u2019t have the pronunciation already at hand, or the amount of spelling errors just to write it.<\/p>\n

But enough about this unnecessarily long word.\u00a0 I just figured it would be a perfect transition into talking about patent law and made up words (in a good way). \u00a0Surprisingly there are many made up words when it comes to writing patent applications.\u00a0 When it comes to describing something, sometimes all of the real words in the dictionary just don\u2019t cut it.\u00a0 Because of this, the made up words were born.\u00a0 Here are a few examples that I could come up with off the top of my head.\u00a0 Therebetween, slidably, hingedly, releasably, removably.\u00a0 They\u2019re real words but not used correctly as real words.\u00a0 Regular adverbs just don\u2019t cut it.\u00a0 Obviously describing a wall locking mechanism that can lock two walls together but also release the lock of the walls, doesn\u2019t work.\u00a0 So instead it becomes a wall locking mechanism for releasbly locking the walls.\u00a0 Also describing a member that can slide against a mechanism could be described as the member is slidably movable against a mechanism.\u00a0 This helps get to the point easier and describe the object in a shorter way that still makes sense.\u00a0 There are very few times, while reading patent applications that I can remember where the made up words didn\u2019t work.\u00a0 I have to admit though, I am not a fan of therebetween.\u00a0 That was why it was one of the few words I could think of.\u00a0 To me it just sounds awkward and bulky.\u00a0 But it works for enough people for me to have come across it.\u00a0 So if you\u2019re good at making up adverbs, or are okay with using them, then patent application drafting is for you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A post from student blogger Nicole Doesn\u2019t the title look like a made up work?\u00a0 Well believe it or not it\u2019s actually real!\u00a0 It\u2019s pronounced [flok-suh-naw-suh-nahy-hil-uh-pil-uh-fi-key-shuh n] and it\u2019s one of the longest words in the English language. \u00a0It means … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1180,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions\/1180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}