Hydrants as monuments patent

Obviously satire.

Around here about half the RMs on the old FEMA maps are flange bolts on hydrants established in the 70's. Does this mean that HydMon can go after the federal government? Oh I wish they would because that would end this silly idea.

I am going to patent the world so nobody can do a topographical survey and nobody can take a photograph of the world without my express authorization.

Did they get approval from Fire Dept?

While the temporary use of a hydrant is common practice, setting up an instrument over a monument thereby blocking or restricting access to the monument is a potential offense.

Did they get approval from Fire Dept?

i have a life size picture of a firefighter teeing up on one of those 'standees' with their hydrant wrench.

I had come across these patents several years ago when compiling my book on Survey Monument patents and decided against including or showing them.

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2011/0252655 A1

[sarcasm]I'm surprised that you omitted a monument that has an internal tribrach.[/sarcasm]

(Part no. 28)

Classic patent troll, they have started approaching small towns in Ontario, Canada, requesting all field notes from the past municipal surveys, with the intent of finding patent infringments and receiving compensation for using hydrants as monuments!!
Unbelievable... this dude is a former city of Barrie, Ontario survey tech, what a disgrace to the survey profession.

If Canadian patent law is like that in the US, you start by showing them your field notes from well before their application date, along with textbook references to using fire hydrants decades earlier. You tell them it's prior art that invalidates their patent claims, and hope they don't waste money on both sides by filing suit that they will lose.

I would note as said above, that I didn't notice any patent claims for using the hydrant in only one dimension, i.e., as a bench mark (however bad that idea is). So unless you have 2- or 3-dimensional data on the hydrant it should be irrelevant.

Looks like it has already cost this small community of Orillia, Ont (pop. 30 000) a few of their precious tax dollars in lawyer fees.
http://cas-ncr-nter03.cas-satj.gc.ca/IndexingQueries/infp_RE_info_e.php?court_no=T-851-14

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How do you find this court information ?

Thank you

Derek

I have not tried to get the official government docs, I found some information at this private law firm site www.ippractice.ca

I hope the defendant takes this all the way to trial and prevails so that this ridiculous claim of patent protection is shown to be groundless.