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USPTO New Accelerated Review Process
Intron writes "Perhaps you have been lying awake worrying that your software patent on bubble sort might spend too much time being "examined" or "peer reviewed". You will be pleased to know that the US Patent and Trademark Office has launched their accelerated review process. "Applicants' submissions enjoy a presumption of patentability" says the patent office. Applicants are also responsible for disclosing any prior art."
Ah yes, now I can finally patent the array!
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"We here at the US Patent Office value efficiency over bureaucracy."
Aren't they cool!
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...the USPTO outsources reading the applications to outer Mongolia, on the grounds that if they're going to accept them all anyway, what does it matter?
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
They're infringing on my patent for an accelerated patent review system. I filed it just a few minutes ago through their accelerated process!
This disclosure teaches a novel day on which to spring those jokes. By using March 29, a whole new dimension is added to joking.
Add drawing here.
Claims...
Engineering is the art of compromise.
... how do you know the calendar isn't fooling you? ;)
You know, there is a difference between trolling and pointing out the flaws in your reasoning. Just saying.
this should end well.
Nothing is inexplicable; only unexplained -Tom Baker, Doctor Who
It's true I tell you, feller at work's next door neighbour read it in the paper.
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Or breathing, ehm, I mean: a method to increase the oxygen level of blood while reducing its carbon dioxide level by periodically sucking air into the lungs and then blowing it out again.
Ok, maybe I should make it more general:
Claims:
1. A method of exchange of gases between a gas mixture containing such gases and a liquid transporting those gases, by having a resizeable gas volume, which is periodically expanding and shrinking in order to suck in and blow out the gas mixture, and having the liquid flow along membranes to that gas volume, where the membrane allwos diffusion of those gases into or out of the liquid.
2. Claim 1, where the gas mixture is air.
3. Claim 1, where the exchanged gases are oxygen and carbon dioxide.
4. Claim 1, where the liquid is blood.
5. Claim 1, where the resizeable gas volume is the human lung.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.