{"id":5591,"date":"2012-10-17T22:25:16","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T04:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=5591"},"modified":"2012-10-17T22:25:16","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T04:25:16","slug":"plurality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=5591","title":{"rendered":"Plurality"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was wondering how many patents have issued over the years that contain claim language referring back to a plurality of something.<\/p>\n

Using the FreePatentsOnline search site last week I generated these results:<\/p>\n

plurality — 1,663,532 patents<\/p>\n

each of a plurality — 43,650<\/p>\n

each of the plurality — 96,169*<\/p>\n

each and every of the plurality — 5*<\/p>\n

every one of the plurality — 105*<\/p>\n

everyone of the plurality — 2*<\/p>\n

all of the plurality — 5,056<\/p>\n

at least one of the plurality — 33,431<\/p>\n

one or more of the plurality — 7,456<\/p>\n

any of the plurality — 4,314<\/p>\n

at least two of the plurality — 4,864<\/p>\n

two or more of the plurality — 1,129<\/p>\n

plurality of the plurality — 423<\/p>\n

sub-plurality of the plurality — 33<\/p>\n

subplurality of the plurality — 14<\/p>\n

some of the plurality — 5,037<\/p>\n

several of the plurality — 87<\/p>\n

few of the plurality — 5<\/p>\n

most of the plurality — 35<\/p>\n

either of the plurality — 43<\/p>\n

none of the plurality — 628<\/p>\n

enough of the plurality — 5<\/p>\n

*One would think that if “each” were so well understood to mean “every one” that there would be a more even distribution between patents that recite “each of the plurality” (96,169) and patents that recite “every one of the plurality” (112).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was wondering how many patents have issued over the years that contain claim language referring back to a plurality of something. Using the FreePatentsOnline search site last week I generated these results: plurality — 1,663,532 patents each of a plurality — 43,650 each of the plurality — 96,169* each and every of the plurality […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5591"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5591"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5648,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5591\/revisions\/5648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}