Ryan Thomas Grace of Omaha, Nebraska penned this clever application for a “Method and instrument for proposing marriage to an individual”. Mr. Grace is a patent attorney and came up with this rather “inventive” strategy for proposing to his girlfriend. The application was filed March 3, 2003 and published April 7, 2007.
The abstract reads as follows:
The purpose of this invention is to provide an improved method of proposing marriage to an individual. The method of proposing to an individual generally comprising the steps of meeting the individual; exchanging names with the individual; dating the individual (not necessary); drafting a government document having a proposal to marry the individual incorporated therein; and showing the government document to the individual. The government document may be a patent application. The patent application may claim the method by which the proposor will make a marriage proposal to the individual. The proposor could then use the method claimed in the patent application to propose to the individual. The patent application could be the actual marriage proposal.
The full text of the application is pretty funny and worth a read. Here is the PDF version: Click here
Note: This is not actually a granted patent, but rather a published application for a patent.
Google link: http://www.google.com/patents?id=9z2XAAAAEBAJ
