Tuesday, July 7, 2009

IP are you okay?


I'm way late with this one, but, as Michael Jackson's funeral commences today, I'd be remiss as a patent blogger to not mention that the King of Pop was a patent-holding inventor.

I heard on Morning Edition this morning that Michael Jackson held a patent for the mechanism that allowed "a shoe wearer to lean forwardly beyond his center of gravity by virtue of wearing a specially designed pair of shoes" during the dance that accompanied his 1987 hit "Smooth Criminal."

There's no better way to remember MJ than by his work:

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