Comment Re:A summary of the patents... (Score 1) 387
The thing about individual examiners getting sued was said in a presentation here to explain why US examiners will almost never file a partial search report in the case of non-unity on a world patent application (PCT). So it was rather an "oral disclosure"!
I am aware that the USPTO examiners are also specialists, but since it was late last night when I posted, I may have got my wording wrong (I certainly got my formatting wrong!) and implied that they are not.
Talking of sueing, (here's an oral disclosure again!) there was a guy who filed a US patent for a perpetual motion machine. It was turned down, so he sued, and eventually there was a hearing in Congress or somewhere and they tried to FORCE the USPTO to grant a patent for something that was absolutely unpatentable, cos it didn't work! But anyway...
I am aware that the USPTO examiners are also specialists, but since it was late last night when I posted, I may have got my wording wrong (I certainly got my formatting wrong!) and implied that they are not.
Talking of sueing, (here's an oral disclosure again!) there was a guy who filed a US patent for a perpetual motion machine. It was turned down, so he sued, and eventually there was a hearing in Congress or somewhere and they tried to FORCE the USPTO to grant a patent for something that was absolutely unpatentable, cos it didn't work! But anyway...
