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."

Comments

Nonsense.

[jtheory]

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.

Re:Nonsense, ala Family Guy

[FrYGuY101]

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.