When Super Soaker Got Sued by a Totally Lame Squirt Gun
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🗓️ 1 June 2026
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Summary
OA1266 - Can wearing a corset be considered a “public” use of the product? What makes someone (or some thing) an inventor? What is it exactly that makes the Super Soaker so rad? Get the answers to these questions and more from… patent law? Jenessa walks us through some of her favorite wacky cases (that also teach us core patent law concepts).
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Egbert v. Lippmann, 104 U.S. 333 (1881)
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Thaler v. Vidal, 43 F.4th 1207 (2022)
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Larami Corp. v. Amron, 27 U.S.P.Q.2d 1280 (E.D. Pa. 1993)
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Larami Corp. v. Amron, 91 F.3d 166 (Fed. Cir. 1996)
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| 0:00.0 | I love this one just because how did a squirt gun turn into a $10 million defamation lawsuit? |
| 0:14.0 | One of the earliest cases is from 1881. |
| 0:21.4 | But this is a corset. |
| 0:22.3 | What does it do? |
| 0:22.8 | It does what a typical corset does, which is suck your waist in and... |
| 0:26.9 | Smash your insides out. |
| 0:28.7 | Hold your boobs up. |
| 0:29.8 | I don't know. |
| 0:35.5 | Hello and welcome to opening arguments. |
| 0:37.0 | This is episode 1266. I'm Thomas Smith. That over there is real life attorney. Janessa, how are you doing? |
| 0:43.1 | I am doing good. I'm going to move the balloon I just discovered under my desk before it makes an audio nightmare for you every time I kick it. |
| 0:53.3 | Balloon? You don't even have kids. What is happening? Yeah, I kick it. Balloon? |
| 0:55.2 | You don't even have kids. |
| 0:56.0 | What is happening? |
| 0:57.8 | Yeah, I like, okay. |
| 0:58.2 | Birthday? |
| 1:00.5 | Congratulations for recent news? Like over a month ago, I had like the minorist of surgeries and Dan got me like flowers and balloons. |
| 1:07.5 | And then we never got rid of the balloons. |
| 1:10.0 | And I've just been slowly drifting around the house. |
| 1:13.2 | What about the cats? Oh, the cat hates it. Oh, the cats, my cats usually kill them or something. |
| 1:18.9 | No, he's just terrified of this ghost that's floating around the house. Well, good times. Yeah, what are we going to be talking about today? |
| 1:28.7 | Today, I've got for you just some nice, cheerful, ridiculous behavior from people in patent cases. |
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