17 April 2012

Namesake James on IP

Namesake James Dyson, industrial designer and founder of the Dyson technology group -- and vastly more famous than yours truly -- published a piece in today's FT entitled A plea for patents that inspire invention.

The mention of James' name brings to mind a play on the name Dyson -- there aren't many -- that is worth repeating.
The Grim Reaper came for me last night in a dream and I beat him off with a vacuum cleaner. Talk about Dyson with death.

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