[Patentcenter] Off Topic - Kind of

[Randall Svihla]

You mean like schadenfreude?


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I love German language… that they have words for specific truisms… :)

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Today I learned a new German word that seems so applicable to PatentCenter I had to share it:  verschlimmbessern.

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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