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Inside Look at Patent Examination
KingFatty writes "This article written by a former patent examiner describes patent application as a matter of luck when it comes to the competency of the examiner. "Every examiner starts with his or her first patent application after receiving just two weeks of training at the USPTO Patent Academy, where he or she learns the basics of the Manual of Patent Examining Procedure. Will your patent application be examined by that newly recruited examiner? If so, will the examiner's supervisor (supervisory patent examiner or SPE)[be] sufficiently skilled in the art in which the patent application is classified?" Gives insights as to the problems with the US Patent and Trademark System."
It's quite clear to me that most of the problems in our patent system were caused by Albert Einstein.
Now patent clerks everywhere do half-assed work, their brains busy trying to come up with the next great theory of time, gravity, and light.
There are only 10 types of people: those who understand decimal, those who don't, and, uh, 8 other types I forget.
Mr. Smith: I've come to patent a theory. I call it "Smith's Theory of Relativity".
Einstein thumbs through the papers.
Enistein knocks out Mr. Smith, and runs.
"If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living."
- Seneca
I wonder what kind of technology patent examiners use. Probably ancient PCs running Internet Explorer 3.0 and a cached version of AltaVista from 1994.
Generally, bash is superior to python in those environments where python is not installed.
Note to self, submit patents in 24-point font.
Karma: It's all a bunch of tree-huggin' hippy crap!