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Who drafts the glossary? Lawyers of course! | 258 comments | Create New Account
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Who drafts the glossary? Lawyers of course!
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, June 04 2013 @ 06:06 PM EDT

ROFL, that's funny:

Someone has to draft this glossary.
You seem to be ignoring the reality that the work you're complaining about is already being done.
    The filing Lawyer is already in discussion with the examiner in order to get the patent granted. During that discussion words are being defined that have an impact to the patentability of the particular invention.
So there's no extra work with the exception of formalizing those definitions once agreed upon in order to get the grant. Isn't that one of the tasks commonly assigned to the paralegal? To outline in an official document what the Lawyer decided upon?
Someone has to figure out which words have to be in the glossary to comply with the silly regulation.
Same problem: The core of the work is already being done. The only extra work is to formalize it.
What will it be? ever verb in the claims? every noun in the claims? Every adjective in the claims?
Icing on the cake of humor. Same complaint a third time, different language. Same solution:
    Formalize the agreed upon definitions between the Patent Lawyer and the examiner!
Of course... if the Lawyers are finding themselves in too difficult a confusing mess because the language used is "Legal" - perhaps they should consider authoring patents in the technical language and accepting the technical definitions thereof.

Sadly: that's not likely. Because Lawyers apparently like to argue just for the sake of arguing.... even if their argument is totally silly:

    "all doesn't mean all"

RAS

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