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Not just timing issues, but rules
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 07 2012 @ 02:40 PM EDT

Remember: The Internet is a publication... mayhap not an official one, but the examiners had once-upon-a-time a rule they were not allowed to search the internet.

Kind of makes you wonder if there were any tree-based publications they had rules not to search through as well.

    Rule Generator: Sorry, but you may not search publications from Universitites unless says publication is referenced in a form that is disseminated to the general public.
Just an example of a potential.

How about this for a process and Rule that the USPTO can follow:

    A: All publications, internet or otherwise, must be disemminated to the Library Of Congress.
    B: The Library Of Congress is an exceptional institution in which they are not held to the limitations of Copyright Law - therefore they can digitize everything for searching purposes
    C: Government bodies such as the USPTO are another exceptional institution in which they can not only search the entire digital library but are also not held to the limitations of Copyright Law so they can reference what they need to in order to perform their jobs properly.
Now... embody the concepts of Google's searching with IBM's Watson and apply it to the Library Of Congress database!

Let's give the USPTO the body of knowledge they need to properly complete their tasks.

Now the only problem left are the Patent Lawyers that love to play word games in order to get a patent validated where the invention is clearly non-patentable for one reason or another.

RAS

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

So howcome?
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 08 2012 @ 01:02 PM EDT
US Patent Office issues patents for things long published elsewhere and
seemingly always has done?

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