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Why is patent art so weird?

Grant St. Clair
Sep 24, 2025
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Yes, I know patent application art is weird because you have to represent often nebulous concepts while also being as specific as possible, but still. What kind of Internet would this be if we couldn’t laugh at it regardless? Context Free Patent Art is a sort of sister project to Hazard Symbols That F*ck Hard, and the next stop on…

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