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"to the best of my knowledge..."
Authored by: FreeChief on Thursday, March 28 2013 @ 12:23 PM EDT
"to the best of my knowledge under penalty of perjury"
That first phrase is the get-out-of-jail-free card.

We all may know that they are gaming the system, and assume that they are doing it on purpose, but they don't care unless you can prove it in court.

Now that you have won your case, do you want to start another one in which you have to prove that the defendant (former plaintiff) is not so rock-headed stupid and incorrigibly ignorant not to know that the whole patent is obvious, old news, and invalid subject matter?

The defense will argue that the USPTO did not know.

The prosecution will be forced to admit that the defendant is not too bright.

 — Programmer in Chief

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