First: as noted by DieterWasDriving, quite often the Patent Examiner's hands
are tied. Remember, for a while there was a rule in place that prevented them
from searching the Internet.
Second: Even when the Examiner rejects a
patent, the Patent Appeal's Board can easily override them and grant the patent
anyway.
Given some of the patent history that has been disclosed during
some of these cases, I highly suspect:
A: The Patent Examiners are far more
technically oriented then the patents being granted would lead one to believe.
They really want to deny these patents.
and
B: The Patent Appeals Board
is not staffed with technical individuals... it's staffed with Lawyers.
I
could easily be wrong on those deductive conclusions based on very little
evidence - and that evidence only being circumstantial.
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