[Patentcenter] Off Topic - Kind of

Rick Bigelow bigelowpatentlaw at gmail.com
Thu Oct 17 13:05:21 UTC 2024


We've had one in the military since at least WWII:  FUBAR.

On Thu, Oct 17, 2024 at 8:57 AM Richard Straussman via Patentcenter <
patentcenter at oppedahl-lists.com> wrote:

> Today I learned a new German word that seems so applicable to PatentCenter
> I had to share it:  verschlimmbessern.
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> I am advised that it means to take something bad and try to make it
> better, but in the process, you make it worse than before.  We NEED a word
> like that in English - particularly for many recent PTO "improvements"!!
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