Show HN: Explore ideas whose patent protection expires today
The majority [1] of patents are never commercially exploited or licensed - I wanted a way to browse recently expired patents to find hidden gems and get inspired by existing inventions. The site uses the recently released USPTO-API [2] to fetch newly expired patents each day.<p>NB: The reason the most recent patents displayed are from 12/31 is because no new patents were granted during the first few days of January 1997.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/danielfisher/2014/06/18/13633/#799ec00c4183" rel="nofollow">http://www.forbes.com/sites/danielfisher/2014/06/18/13633/#7...</a><p>[2] <a href="http://www.patentsview.org/api" rel="nofollow">http://www.patentsview.org/api</a>