America-Israel Patent Law Blog

Today the USPTO issued patent no. 10,000,000.  My brother may speculate why they chose this particular one to be the ten millionth patent.  But I'm wondering something else.  Here's a graph of US patent grants since 1790:

And here's a graph of global temperatures since 1850:

Notice the similarities of the curvatures. Coincidence?

Clearly, the only logical conclusion is that we need to stop patent grants because they're contributing to global warming. I mean climate change. Or whatever the current in-vogue term is.

(Props to our colleague BK for first noticing this, so if you're one of those humorless types, direct your complaints to him.)