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A Day in the Life of a Patent Examiner
ahdkd writes "Forbes has an older article which describes the world of patent examining: Search 500,000 Documents, Review 160,000 Pages In 20 Hours, And Then Do It All Over Again. Might help people understand the USPTO and patents in general a little better."
10:30am
The SCO company: For the use of an acronym in a company name
ACCEPTED!
When anger rises, think of the consequences.
Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
It must be hard to go through hundreds of thousands of documents looking for prior art. look how hard it is sometimes for the slashdot editors to read through a couple of plages to look for previous posts of the same story :) (and yes, I know this story is ok)
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09:00: Get up, sniff glue
09:30: Read newspaper, lick a poisonous toad
10:30: Arrive at work, get high on cough syrup
10:31: Review patents
17:30: Go home, yell at imaginairy wife, pass out on a skittle frenzy
Hate me!
8:00 Arrive in office
...
8:05 Begin daily caffeine overdose
8:10 Check email
8:20 Check todays work schedule
8:30 Retrieve documentation for todays application
9:00 Begin carefully reading application, constantly referring to extensive memory of patents already extant that may cover this application
9:05 God this is boring
9:06 Begin fantasizing about a combination of Halle Berry and strawberry icecream
9:09 Mental decision: Approve patent
9:09:03 Resume Halle fantasy
4:55 Inform supervisisor by email patent is accepted as there is no evidence that Halle Berry has ever been used in this manner before.
4:56 Send additional mail to supervisor, correcting self by replacing Halle with object of patent
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
...patent a new method of submitting patents to the patent office.
Once I was a four stone apology. Now I am two separate gorillas.
over the last year there has been a company claiming a patent on streaming video/audio, (ie not live) but anything recorded that gets d/l and then is played back on a computer......Some of you might not care and say well its the adult industry let them get screwed
All the porn industry has to do is threaten to withold any porn from ever being seen by the patent threatening company's employees. "You will never see another naked woman besides your wife again if you press this patent on us."
A threat like that has to work.
Table-ized A.I.