| Then why don't you become a patent agent, yourself?
There is no
requirement that someone who writes, files, and
prosecutes patent applications
before the USPTO be a licensed attorney,
or even have a legal education. All
that is necessary is that you have a
technical degree, pass the USPTO's written
test, and pass a background
check. The check is essentially one to make sure
that you don't have a
criminal history and also do not have a history of
lying.
Once you are through, you can represent anyone in the USPTO for the
purposes of drafting, filing, and prosecuting patents. Voila! The
problem of patent applications being capable of being understood only by
patent lawyers is solved. And, you can always represent yourself for your
own
patent applications even without meeting any of the
requirements of a
patent agent or attorney.
Given that so many people seem to think that
patents can only be
understood by a lawyer, yet are also simultaneously so
obvious, I'd
love to see, just from a didactic point of view, how
someone
making these assertions would rewrite an already issued patent
application that he or she alleges to have these faults to make it easier for
engineers and/or programmers and/or nonlawyers to understand.
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