Halloween Backpack for dispensing candy

Silly Patents: Halloween Backpack for dispensing candy

We recently learned in class that not all patents have to be breakthroughs or extremely innovative solutions to problems that exist today. Patents can actually be very random. The patent I want to discuss today is called the Halloween backpack, and it seems quite useful for use in that specific holiday.

The container is innovative because it is a backpack that has a candy dispenser. Halloween is known for “trick or treating” and using this backpack can be an easy way to accept and give away candy. This patent is pretty creative and even though it does not have the same transformative power as let’s say, a semiconductor, I definitely see its potential to be sold in the market.

The Halloween backpack is a niche product that will likely appeal to kids and their parents. Reading this patent made me realize how patents can be fun and creative in a way that one would not expect. A patent just has to fit the criteria of being novel and non-obvious, even if the patent is not practically feasible like the method for birthing using the centrifuge. I know if I was a kid, this would have would have been something I would have wanted to purchase or at least brought to “show and tell.”

Analyzing the patent, I think this patent is novel in that it is new – I have never seen this type of backpack being sold in stores, and it is nonobvious in that one would not expect the strategic combination of a container / dispenser with a stuffed animal design into a backpack that allows faster candy receiving in Halloween.