Patent Law, Bad to Verse:

Sorry for the lousy pun. Yehuda Berlinger has produced a verse translation of the entire US Patent Act. It's quite a feat -- as Dr. Johnson said of the dog playing the violin, the amazing thing is not how well it was done, but that it was done at all. Not the world's greatest poem -- personally, I hate the rhythm/rhyme scheme (which I'm sure has a name)

da DA da DA
da DA da DA
da DA da DA
da DA da DA

that gives us verses like:

A regular patent you
Filed for here
Can be filed abroad if
You wait half a year

But that's just a quibble. Patent law can use all the poetry it can get.