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.
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